Too Bad: I have married 2 abducted Chibok girls, Boko Haram leader claims

According to reports, a leader of the

Boko Haram sect, who was allegedly

arrested by the local vigilante, has

confessed to marrying 2 of the over

200 girls abducted from Chibok in Borno.

The suspect, identified as Hassan Ali, is

said to have caught in Maiduguri, the

Borno capital, while on a trip to buy

yams from the market

Leadership reports:

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 s*xual demands of one of

the Amirs (leaders) in Sambisa, an act

that elevated him to the position of Amir

too.

According to the officials of the

Vigilante Group of Nigeria in Borno

State, 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.