Four members of the Boko Haram terrorist group were caught in Gwange Ward of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital disguised as women in their bid to escape the area as a result of pressure mounted by vigilante youths in the area combing for terrorists in their midst.
As a result, the residents of Gwange area in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital have now restricted their women from going out in the evening in a bid to defeat the new tactic of the sect members who 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.
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