Thursday, 29 May 2014

Boko Haram: Boy confesses to razing houses in Borno village for N2,000

By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri
A young man, named, Ibrahim Tilitili was said
to have been paid the sum of two thousand
Naira (N2,000), to burn down few houses at
Mandara Girau village in Biu local government
area of Borno state.
Ibrahim, Chibok by tribe and resident of
Mandara Girau village confessed that one
Mallam Sani also a resident of the Village
gave him the amount and instructed him to
set some of the houses in the village on fire.
According to residents of the village, Ibrahim
had succeeded in setting ablaze three houses
and scare the people of the village who
started running for their lives to safe heaven
before some brave young men pounce on him,
when they realized, it was a lone attack.
On realizing that, he was somebody they know
in the village, they wanted to killed him, but
some elders intervene and he was arrested and
taken to Sarkin Baka- renown hunter in Biu
town, where he made confession that, he was
actually paid by Mallam Sani who is also
resident of the village to set those houses
ablaze.
Our Correspondent learnt that, after he was
interrogated by Vigilantee leader (Sarkin
Baka) in Hausa langauge and made the
confession, he led the men who arrested him
to his paid master, who was also arrested
and handed over to police in Biu town.

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