“I Was Paid N2,000 To Burn Houses” – Suspected Boko Haram Member

A young man in Borno is said to have confessed that he was paid by Boko Haram members to burn houses in a village in the state.

Ibrahim Tilitili, an indigene of Chibok, where over 200 girls were abducted, said that he was paid N2,000 to burn down a few houses at Mandara Girau village in the Biu Local Government Area of the state.


Ibrahim allegedly confessed that he received the money from one Mallam Sani who told him to burn the houses.

According to residents of the village, Ibrahim had succeeded in setting ablaze three houses and scare the people of the village who started running for their lives to safe heaven before some brave young men pounce on him, when they realized, it was a lone attack.

On realizing that, he was somebody they knew in the village, they wanted to kill him, but some elders intervene and he was arrested and taken to Sarkin Baka- renown hunter in Biu town, where he made confession that, he was actually paid by Mallam Sani who is also resident of the village to set those houses ablaze.

It was further gathered that after he was interrogated by Vigilantee leader (Sarkin Baka) in Hausa language and made the confession, he led the men who arrested him to his paid master, who was also arrested and handed over to police in Biu town.