Mohammed Bashir, member of Boko Haram, who was arrested by the Ondo State Police Command has confessed that members of the sect were planning to carry out an attack on the state.
He said, “I am an officer in Boko Haram, I was arrested by the police when I wanted to go and eat. Other members of the gang and I have been meeting in the bush on how to carry out attacks on Ondo State. I left the meeting to go and eat when the police arrested me.” .
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He also revealed he use to be a Fulani herdsman before he was coerced into joining the terrorist group and has participated in many of the attacks in Borno and Nasarawa states. .
The 20-year old suspects claimed powerful people supplied the group with arms and ammunition.
“Killing means nothing to us. I have once killed two people with gun. .
I killed one man and a boy; we just kill people at will. We kill people because we believe that those practising western education are evil doers and we must kill them.”