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From: Molly Kilete, Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command, on Monday, paraded a suspected Boko Haram member, said to be taking refuge in the nation’s capital.
The suspect, Seth Yakubu Adokwe, 20, an indigene of Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, was arrested following a tip-off from villagers over his sudden change of behaviour.
The suspect, who confessed to have escaped from Sambisa Forest, following heavy military bombardment of the area, told newsmen that he left Maiduguri, last Friday, and arrived Abuja, on Saturday.
He said he ran to another village, Gwako, which is not too far from his village to conceal his identity and evade arrest.
He was, however, not too lucky in the village as villagers spotted him and a stranger coupled with his suspicious behaviour, and alerted the police.
The suspect, who was not allowed to be photographed by pressmen by the police, said he was lured into joining the terrorists group sometime in October 2016, by a man who he said approached him with a promise to get an automatic employment into the Nigerian Army.
Having being conscripted into the terrorists group, the suspect said he was appointed as Second-in-Command of his unit and actively participated in several attacks on villages in the Northeast where they destroyed houses and killed innocent persons.
