Borno youths who go hunting for
suspected Boko Haram insurgents are said to have set ablaze a sect
member in Dikwa, south east of Maiduguri yesterday.
Volunteer
Vigilance Youths Group (VVYG) otherwise known as ‘Civilian JTF’ has
been operating in Maiduguri and environs for quite some time now,
tracking down and arresting suspecting sect members, and then hand them
over to security forces.
Our correspondent gathered that members
of the VVYG, which operate along Ngala road in Maiduguri, yesterday
raced to Dikwa, once capital of Kanem Borno Empire, where they caught up
with the suspect.
The vigilantes claimed the suspect had confessed that he alone had killed more than 70 people.
They
said many of those killed were their loved ones and that they had,
therefore, vowed to fish him out wherever he goes or enters.
One
of the youths who participated in human bonfire said: “We left Maiduguri
for Dikwa town purposely to fish out; that Boko haram member who killed
our fathers and cousins and then fled to Dikwa town to hide. And when
we reached the town, apart from him, we caught 19 other sect members who
ran there to hide.
We succeeded in bringing them back to
Maiduguri, and then we suggested handing over the 19 suspects to the
soldiers while our main target would remain with us for a special
punishment he deserves because many of us were sorrowfully aggrieved
with him; he killed many people in our area when they (Boko Haram
members) were strong, and we couldn’t do anything then. But now he has
entered his victims’ hands.
When we decided to burn him, we just
bathed him in fuel and set him on fire to die in presence of all the
orphans and widows whom he had caused to suffer. So, what we did to him
is minor compared to the evil he did to all of us. Though some of us
have even suggested punishments worst than burning but the majority of
us emphasised on setting him ablaze, that was why we agreed to just burn
the evil Boko Haram sect member who killed our loved ones.
“Why
don’t we pity him? No, When he had been coming, shooting people to
death, why hadn’t he pited them? Those Boko Haram sect members were
pitilessly killing people, so they do not deserve any pity from other
people,” he added.
~DailyTrust
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