Read The Shocking Confession Of A 16-Year- Old Boko Haram Suspect

A 16-year-old suspected Boko Haram member,
Mohammed Adamu (also known as Engineer),
testified yesterday, revealing plans of how they
planned to attack Abuja late last year.
During a public hearing conducted by the National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the
September 20 killings, Adamu disclosed how he
and 12 others held nocturnal meetings in an
uncompleted building at Gudu, near Apo with the
intention to launch attacks against government's
interests in their determination to defend Islam.
He said they usually converge at 8pm and left by
11pm and their discussions were on defending
their religion through war, using guns and other
weapons.
"We agreed and wanted to fight with the
government; we were holding discussions on ways
and manner to carry out the operation. One day,
Suleiman came back with a bag and I enquired
what was inside, he opened it and showed me four
AK 47 rifles and a pistol.
He said he led the security operatives to arrest
Suleiman and other members around midnight on
the day of the incident.
"On arrival at the uncompleted building, while the
security people approached the building, some
people inside the building started shooting at us
and I was instructed to lie down by the SSS official.
Soldiers then returned fire. I saw Suleiman and the
others digging out guns where they buried them in
front of the building," Adamu said.
On how he was arrested, he said, "Suleiman gave
me a SIM card with an instruction that I should not
use the line anyhow. He told me to always put the
SIM on around 8pm. I was at a mosque when the
SSS operatives came, with the help of a machine,
when it was my turn, they found the SIM in my
phone and that was how I was arrested and taken
to the SSS office."
He denied being compelled to indict himself and
other members of the sect. "Nobody has told me
what to say, Allah is my witness. What I said, is to
the best of my knowledge."
Source: The Nation