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A man who found out that his nephew was a member of Boko Haram and gave him up for execution has said he does not regret his action.
Abba Ajikali opted to volunteer for the ‘Civilian JTF’ — a congregation of willing citizens who assist the military’s anti-terrorism watch in the north-east — in Borno State after growing tired of repeated losses of innocent lives to terrorist attacks. And on discovering that his 16-year-old nephew was a member of the group, he refused to cover him up. “I caught him with my hand and handed him over to the authorities,”
CNN’s Arwa Damon, Brent Swails, and Nick Thompson quoted him as saying in Where are Nigeria’s missing girls? On the hunt for Boko Haram. “He has been executed. He was like my son; I have no regret.” Chibok has been in the international spotlight since news of the abduction of more than 200 girls of the secondary school in the community on April 14, 2014, broke out.
President Goodluck Jonathan was roundly criticised for not visiting the community, but it has now been revealed that even members of the fact-finding committee he inaugurated on the kidnap have never quite set foot on Chibok. “[The parents] need to know that the nation is with them, that people are with them,” a member of the committee told CNN anonymously. “But there are people that wouldn’t let us even call them.
They keep saying it’s security, and that’s why we can’t go; but some of us are willing to risk it.” The Chibok kidnap is only four days shy of four months; and not only has Boko Haram revved up series of bomb attacks in the north-east, recent bomb attacks in north-central Plateau State and north-western Kano State are believed to have been masterminded by the group. Only on Thursday, gunmen believed to be Boko Haram members abducted 20 women — “all of them young mothers” — in Garkin Fulani, a village 8km off Chibok
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