Women charm Boko Haram terrorists

BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI
Residents of Attagara village, in  Gwoza Local
Government Area of Borno state on Friday
evening repelled attack on their community by
suspected Boko Haram who invaded the area.
Attagara, a border community with Cameroon
Republic is about 10 kilometres south- east of
Pulka District, Gwoza Local Government Area
of the state and about 130 kilometres drive
from Maiduguri, the state capital.
Vanguard sources said the attacker invaded
the village on motorcycles but met some
women as they were entering the village.
“They wanted to hit the women with the stick
in their hands but their hands were hung in
the air. Three of the insurgents fled but seven
were not lucky when the women alert the
people,” a resident of the area who returned to
Maiduguri told journalists
He said the vigilante group in the community
rushed to the scene and disarmed the seven
insurgents, adding that the Boko Haram men
were lynched by the residents who also
destroyed their motorcycles. “Seven of the
insurgents died,” he said.
Also a  Boko Haram leader, Hassan Ali, who
was reportedly arrested by the local vigilante
in Maiduguri three weeks ago, has confessed
that he got “married” to two of the abducted
Chibok schoolgirls in Sambisa forest.
According to reliably source leadership.ng
Hassan Ali, a native of Kwapchi-Kilakise
village who was said to have killed his
biological father, Mallam Hassan Arigizhe, and
his uncle, Zakariya Ali, was also said to have
sanctioned the killing of his younger sister
whom he forcefully took to Sambisa when she
refused to accede to the sexual demands of
one of the Amirs (leaders) in Sambisa, an act
that elevated him to the position of Amir too.
leadership.ng quoting officials of the Vigilante
Group of Nigeria in Borno State, said Hassan
was arrested by the Civilian-JTF and members
of the VGN when he was spotted in a car
trying to leave Maiduguri for Benisheik, along
the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway.
A VGN official said: “It was on the first day
that we mobilised to Pilgrims Camp when we
wanted to be given permission to go to
Sambisa in search for the missing girls. When
he was asked to identify himself, he pretended
to be a dumb person. But those that knew him
said he was lying and they started to beat him
up; it was when he sensed death that he later
confessed that he was a member of Boko
Haram, and that he was sent to come to
Maiduguri to buy yams worth N200, 000. He
said he had finished his transaction and the
truck had since left for Sambisa.
“When we asked him about the abducted girls,
he said they were all fine, that none of them
was being hurt or molested; he said as a
matter of fact he was betrothed to two of them
as wives due to his position as Amir. He said
they eat good food there – mostly canned
foods and canned drinks; they eat spaghetti,
rice, smoked fish and yam.
“I was the one that personally interviewed him
when he was arrested near Njimtilo at the
outskirts of Maiduguri, towards Damaturu. I
even took some jotting of his statement before
we later left him with the Sector-6 officials of
the Civilian-JTF. I did not take his
photograph but some of our local hunters who
had camera phones did. Unfortunately, all of
them had gone back to their various localities
after the state government had disbanded us
last week.”
LEADERSHIP cannot independently verify this
report, even though many members of the
Civilian-JTF in the state attested to such
incident happening. None could tell the
whereabouts of the Boko Haram kingpin,
Hassan Ali.