ONDO : ANOTHER BOKO HARRAM SUSPECT ARRESTED -Confessed killing two
Picture1. Ondo Commissioner of Police, Gbenga Adeyanju addressing the press.
Picture 2. Boko Harram Commander at police headquarters in Akure, Muhammadu Bashir.
Within a week, two Boko Harram suspects have been arrested in Ondo state by men and officers of the Nigeria Police, Ondo state command.
While parading the recent arrested Boko Harram suspect along side some cultists and Indian hemp cultivators, the state Commissioner of Police , Gbenga Adeyanju said the suspect was arrested somewhere around Isua-Akoko in Akoko South East area of the state, with a tip-off from the community.
Adeyanju stated that the collaborative efforts of the community help at arresting the various suspects, while he promises that every identity of various informants will be protected, implores the people at giving police useful information at ridding-off crime in the state and country at large.
Confessing his involvement in Boko Harram operations, Muhammadu Bashir, 20 said he hails from Nasarawa state, that he is a Herdman came to the state in company of his younger brother who is still at large now.
According to him, he and other Boko Harram sects that always stay in the bush as herdsmen are about to launch attack at the point he was arrested, at Isua-Akoko, while he was hungry ,in process of looking for food he was arrested.
"I left Kano where I stay with my parents alongside with my brother, when my father complained of my quietness, I am a Herdman and have some horses, caramels and cattles".
"Joining the Boko Harram does not involved too much formalities, as I was co-opted in the bush in process of my grassing and given weapons and other dangerous gadgets we use for operations While some powerful individuals were behind our operations as Boko Harram " Bashir noted.
Muhammadu Bashir who confessed to have killed two people in the state, since his arrival for operaction, and that there are other members of the Boko Harram sects presently in the state that are still at large now.
His words, "I have killed two people so far, one is a kid on way back from the farm , I killed him and another adult too I killed somewhere that came my way, while we still have some of our members in the state now, am begging government to forgive me now , I have repent, as death is nothing more to me". He noted.
Other paraded suspects were members of cultists group that the Commissioner of Police informs were arrested somewhere at Igoba and Oba-Ile area of Akure north local government area of the state and also some Indian hemp cultivators.
It will be recalled that sometimes last week, the Police in the state arrested one Boko Harram suspect , Idris Ibrahim Babawo that was handed over to the Army for further action, too in same area at Isua-Akoko where Muhammadu Bashir has just been arrested, as the police said he will be also handed over to the Army
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