Adam Mustapha, 20, is among the 22 suspected Boko Haram members arrested by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, led by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari.
Mustapha and other 21 colleagues, have confessed to being behind the abduction of the Chibok school girls.
The Chibok girls were abducted in April 2014. The abduction of the girls attracted global outrage and condemnation.
Relating his role in played in the abduction of the girls, Mustapha, a native of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said he joined the sect in 2009 when Mohammed Yusuf, its founder, was still alive.
He disclosed: “My job as a member of Boko Haram Since 2014 was to take young girls, who are to be used for suicide bombings to target locations. I’m usually paid N200, 000 for each operation. I joined the Boko Haram Sect in 2009 when Mohammed Yusuf was still alive. I used to pray with the sect in their mosque, but I didn’t join in the fight from the beginning. I went underground. I rejoined the group four years ago, when one Ibrahim, a member of the group, approached me with the idea of buying stolen cows and other livestocks from the group, which I would sell in Maiduguri.
“I made so much money from the business. Ibrahim was later killed by soldiers during a shootout. I bought a vehicle with the money I made and the group then gave me a new assignment, which was for me to always transport suicide bombers, who were mainly young girls, from the Sambisa Forest, with their suicide vest to their target locations.
“The person who normally transported the girls from Sambia Forest to Muma Garage in Maiduguri, where I will pick them up, was Abu, but he had been arrested. Sometimes I get instruction from the Sambisa Forest on where the suicide bombers would attack, and where there is none, I would take them to any area where I felt the casualty figure would be very high.
“My target locations were usually densely populated areas and before I receive the girls from Abu, I normally drive round the town to find areas that were populated. I took the girls to several places, including Post Office area of Maiduguri, where they carried out attacks. I also took them twice to Baga Road, Monday Market, 33 Army Barracks. In fact, so many people died during these attacks.
“I was usually paid N200,000 after each successful mission. My last mission was on May 10, 2018. We carried out the attack at 33, Army Barracks in Maiduguri. In one of my operations, on Baga Road, one of my younger brothers was killed during the suicide bomb attacks. I felt very bad about the incident. I wanted to quit but couldn’t because the money was tempting. But I now regret everything I had done. I don’t know how the police learnt about me; I was in my house when they stormed in and arrested me.”
Mayinta Modu aka Abu, 23, another suspected Boko Haram member, introduced himself as a commander in the sect.
Modu disclosed that he was equally the person that used to move young girls used for suicide bombings, from Sambisa Forest into Maiduguri Town.
He further confessed that he had been fighting for the sect as a commander since 2011 and had assisted the sect in taking over several towns, villages. He had equally participated in ambush attacks across the Northeastern states of Nigeria and some parts of Niger, Chad and Cameron.
He said: “The leadership of the Boko Haram sect usually pays each fighter N30,000 after each attack.”
Recounting how the sect members abducted the girls in April 2014, Modu said: “One of the commanders, who receives direct orders from our leader, Abubakar Shekau, Bana Chungori, called out over 100 of us. We all assembled at the Sambisa Forest. He said that Shekau had ordered that we should all go to Chibok Local Government and kidnap some schoolgirls at a school. We couldn’t ask questions; it was a direct order from Shekau. We all mounted our trucks. We had five big military trucks, three Toyota Hilux van and two Isuzu pickup trucks.
“We left the Sambisa Forest around 5pm that fateful day and arrived at the school around 10pm. We surrounded the school when we arrived. When we were certain that there would be no resistance, Chungori gave orders that we should all go in; we found the girls running around in fear. We kidnapped many of them and moved them into our trucks. When we got to the entrance of the Sambisa Forest, Chungori ordered his foot soldiers and lower commanders, including me, to leave the trucks because he wanted to take the girls to Shekau, whose camp was deep inside the forest. I didn’t see the girls again because I didn’t go close to Shekau. I was paid N30,000 on the day of the abduction. I was given N60,000 after a set of ransom was paid for the release of the girls.
“Sometimes in December 2014, two of our top commanders, Bakura and Ibrahim, ordered me to take two girls with suicide vest to Maiduguri town and supervise them until they detonated their bombs. But each time I got to Maiduguri, I didn’t even get into the Metropolis with them, and then I would leave at the outskirt of the town. And before you know it, they detonated their bombs. The first one they did it was at Muna Garage and second was at Dalori which was also outskirt of Maiduguri town.
“A member of the group, Adam, who had a taxi in Maiduguri, then called our commander and told him that the suicide bombers I had been bringing, had been unable to enter into the town where they were large crowds and since he was a taxi driver, he could always help us locate densely populated areas where people could be killed in larger numbers, if only my commanders would pay him. They agreed on N200,000 per mission. Thus each time I took the girls from Sambisa Forest, I would take them to Adam, who would then take the girls into Maiduguri metropolis and after each successful attack, I was the person who used to take his money to him. My commanders use to pay me between N60,000 to N70,000 after each operation. I wasn’t doing this because of my Islamic faith; I was just doing this because of the money.”
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