A former commander of the deadly terrorist group, Boko Haram, has said that he lost count of the number of people he killed before he was arrested by troops.
Joseph David, 25, in an interview with the Nation newspapers, said he was worried that his hands were soiled by so much blood that he might never find forgiveness with God and the relations of his victims.
He also sensationally revealed how he forcibly married two of the more than 250 girls abducted by the terror sect from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014.
The Christian turned Islamist fighter said the two Chibok girls were part of the benefits that accrued to his office as a Boko Haram commander.
David said that he himself was abducted by the sect from his native Mubi, Adamawa State as a 22-year-old man sometime in 2014.
He said he was a student of Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, at the time of his abduction.
Now 25 and in security custody, David said he was placed on a salary of N500,000 per month or its foreign equivalent.
His hefty pay afforded him the luxury of 3 wives. The Chibok girls came soon after he took his first wife, Faridah.
Life in Sambisa Forest seemed to be getting rosier by the day until he incurred the wrath of his ‘commander-in-chief’, Abubakar Shekau.
His offense, he said, was that he was treating his wives well while other commanders were abusing theirs.
The punishment for that, he said, was Shekau’s decision to confiscate the women.
“He (Shekau) said he did not trust me. He said, one day, I would run with them back to Nigeria,” he said. The three women, he said, were still in Sambisa Forest.
“I want to say sorry because these things that I did, I did them to save my life. If I didn’t do them, they might think I was trying to bring problem within them,” he added.