Ex- commander of the deadly terrorist group, Boko Haram, has said that he lost count of the number of people he killed before he was arrested by troops.
Speaking with The Nation newspaper in a military detention facility in Borno State, 25-year-old Joseph David said he was worried that his hands were soiled by so much blood that he might never find forgiveness with God and the relations of his victims.
He also sensationally revealed how he forcibly married two of the more than 250 girls abducted by the terror sect from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014.
The Christian turned Islamist fighter said the two Chibok girls were part of the benefits that accrued to his office as a Boko Haram commander.
David said that he himself was abducted by the sect from his native Mubi, Adamawa State as a 22-year-old man sometime in 2014.
He said he was a student of Adamawa State Polytechnic,Yola at the time he was abducted.
Now 25 and in security custody after he was captured by soldiers during a battle with the sect, David said he was placed on a salary of N500,000 per month or its foreign equivalent.
His hefty pay afforded him the luxury of three wives. The Chibok girls came soon after he took his first wife, Faridah.
Life in Sambisa Forest seemed to be getting rosier by the day until he incurred the wrath of his ‘commander-in-chief’, Abubakar Shekau.
His offence, he said, was that he was treating his wives well while other commanders were abusing theirs.
The punishment for that, he said, was Shekau’s decision to confiscate the women.
“He took the two Chibok girls from me because I treated them well,” David whose Islamic name is Ibrahim Al Hajar, said.
“He (Shekau) said he did not trust me. He said ,one day,I would run with them back to Nigeria.”
David is blaming those he called moles for his frosty relationship with Shekau because, according to him, he simply refused to maltreat his wives the way they were doing theirs.
The three women, he said, were still in Sambisa Forest.
Expressing regrets for all the lives he took while working for the terror sect, he said: “You know, the lives of people that I have wasted. At the end, I don’t know how it will be…on the day of judgment.
“And I regret because I was a student before Boko haram kidnapped me.
“I want to say sorry because these things that I did,I did them to save my life. If I didn’t do them, they might think I was trying to bring problem within them.
“So, I did those things smartly and logically till the time that God provided way for me to escape.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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So you save one life to kill many lives because you don't want to die for Christ...you were never a Christian from the beginning.
ReplyDeleteHmm! Life or death situations are not that easy. Most Christians and Muslims are not truly religious. Their religious affiliation is just because they were born into it.
DeleteI pray the law appropriately takes it's course against all offenders.
DeleteWell. It's easy for you to judge this man but let God be the judge.
ReplyDeleteMost of them did not voluntarily join the sect. No right thinking man will join Boko Haram at will.
They were equally adopted
But some people are saying the BOKO HARAM are working for Islam, is this man a Muslim?? ??.we all know 75percent of the group are not Muslim's. Morones used bad and Deviant once among the Muslim ummah to reduce our population. If not who are those that bailed muhammed yusuf? ??.are they Muslim's????. Nor matter how they were tried in court, we will not and never never never forget and forgive those that have hand in one way or the other that help aids connive or covered the atrucities or mahem against us. We are petiantly waiting for judgment in hereafter.
ReplyDeleteMshelia Muktar, haven't you heard he was forcefully converted? Didn't you read his name is changed? Is Ibrahim Al hajar same as David? Why are you disgracing yourself Mr man? Have you ever heard shekau reading any bible? The whole world have heard and seen shekau with quaran and nothing else. Why are you guys so biased?
DeleteGood Man, you're quite right. People don't read in-between lines just like this man called Mshelia and their good sense of judgment are beclouded with sentiments.
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