Youths In Borno Arrests Boko-Haram Members Dressed As Women

The pressure mounted on members of the Boko Haram sect by vigilante youths in Borno state is yielding more results as four members of the sect were arrested on Saturday in Gwange ward wearing women’s clothing and trying to escape arrest. The arrest was facilitated by information made available to the youths that Boko Haram sect members now resort to wearing women’s clothing to go out and perpetrate evil or try to escape arrest by soldiers and vigilante youths in the area. According to residents, who pleaded anonymity the sect members also wear women’s clothings to hide their weapons. “They have been doing that for a long time according to one of them who was arrested last month in Gwange and since that time so many of them have been arrested and handed to security,” he said. Speaking on whether the soldiers are killing the arrested Boko Haram members, he said, “They (vigilante youths) have been arresting them, but killing them, we do not know because the soldiers always carry them to the JTF headquarters.” According to him, even those that were arrested with ‘hijab’ last week Saturday, we were told that the youths beat them up and handed them over to the military for further interrogation.