Eight Boko Haram members renounce membership of sect

Eight members of the terror group, Boko Haram,
have denounced their membership of the sect, in a
town around Mussa in Askira/Uba Local
Government Area of Borno State, the Chairman of
the youth vigilance group in the town, Apagu
Istifanus, told journalists on Friday.
According to him, the eight claimed they are tired
of killing innocent persons.
Istifanus, who spoke with journalists on the
telephone, said the eight were arrested in Mussa
and after interrogations, they confessed their
membership of the sect and stated their readiness
to renounce their membership and rejoin their
families.
He said, “We arrested eight Boko Haram members
in Mussa around 4pm on Thursday and when we
interrogated them, they said they were tired, they
did not want to wage Jihad again and we handed
them over to the military in Mubi, Adamawa State.”
He revealed that six out of the arrested members
of the sect were from Gwoza town, the
headquarters of Gwoza Local Government Area.
Another member of the youth vigilance group from
the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity to
journalists, said the eight were nabbed at a remote
village of Mussa in Askira-Uba LGA in the southern
part of Borno State.
Meanwhile, residents of Miringa town of Biu LGA of
the state have decried the locking down of the
town by the military authorities for about six days.
They lamented that they had been made to go
hungry as they were made to go without food,
water and other basic necessities of life.
A resident of the town, Idris Musa, told journalists
on the telephone that they were locked up in their
homes since last Saturday, without prior notice
and not allowed to replenish basic necessities.
Musa adeed, “We were locked up since last
Saturday without food, water and other essential
needs of life. It was only on Wednesday they gave
us time to go out from 8am to 12noon and today,
Friday, they allowed us to go for Friday prayers.”