Even as the police have recently claimed that members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect are
involved in the killing of about 40 students in
Mubi , Adamawa State, an online publication,
Premium Times, had reported that a man, who
claimed to be a senior member of the Islamic
sect, told PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday that his
group had nothing to do with the killings.
According to the man, “We have no business
with students or student politics. If students are
our target we would have killed them randomly
on sight and in their school and not sneak on
them in the creeping darkness in an area
occupied by both students and residents.”
The man, who PREMIUM TIMES’ investigations
revealed to be a member of the group, said if the
sect wanted to attack educational facilities, it
would have gone for structures and not
students . He continues: “What would have been
our target as far as I am concerned would have
been the building and property of the institution,
since it is owned by the government. At least, by
now other students elsewhere would have been
attacked if students are our concern.”
The man had also pointed out that the mode of
attack was not characteristic of the sect’s
numerous attacks, “Several statements by our
spokesman and Imam in the past have made it
clear who our enemies are. I don’t have to repeat
it here. I don’t think anybody among us has the
time to draw up a list or read it out before
executing the students.” How, and when
PREMIUM TIMES got in touch with “the man”,
they however did not say.
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