At first sight, one would mistake him for a
perfect gentle man. He wears an innocent face
that would make you open your arms for a
warm embrace. But a close look at 27-year-old Nasir Isiaku, you
will see a clear picture of a woof in sheep
clothing, nay, a green snake under a green
grass. Like the Biblical old Saul, he hates Christianity
with passion and he’s proud of it. Ask him and he bluntly tells you, “If we ask our
victim, ‘Will you become a Muslim or not and he
or she refuses, we will slaughter him like a
goat…” He talked of himself as an Islamic
warrior who take delight in chopping off
people’s head with a stroke of his dagger. However, Isiaku had a Saul to Paul encounter
and his life changed. Narrating his life as the second-in-command of
a terrorist group that wages war against non-
Muslims in the north, Isiaku, a native of Gusau
in Zamfara State said, while still in the group,
he decimated hundreds of Christians for
refusing to accept Islam. The group, which he identified as Shitte, has
the same ideology with the Boko Haram sect –
continuous opposition to Christianity. Hear him, “Our own group is called Shitte but
we have the same agenda with the Boko Haram
sect. You people have only been hearing of
Boko Haram, but there are other deadly Islamic
groups who are also part of Boko Haram sect,”
he said, adding: “Whenever we heard that any of the sects were fighting Christians, we would
always join them,” Isiaku, while confessing his evil deeds to a
gathering of Christians recently opened up on
how he renounced what he called “the cult”
where he drank his victims’ blood so their
ghosts would not haunt him in dreams. DailyPost brings you the excerpts of the
shocking confession as told by Isiaka raw and
uncut: “I joined the Bafarawa Arabic Islamic Centre in
2010 and they were teaching us Arabic
language. Every year, we take about 20 people
to Iran for special training because our zonal
headquarters is in Iran. Our own group is called
Shitte but we have the same agenda with the Boko Haram sect. You people have only been
hearing of Boko Haram, but there are other
deadly Islamic groups that are also part of Boko
Haram sect. I can count up to six of them that
I’m very much aware of. Whenever we heard
that any of the sects was fighting Christians, we always joined them. My own group has been
an Islamic movement for a long time, even
before I was born. It reigned in the north during
the Abacha military regime and it has many
branches in the north. We are in major northern
states such as Kastina, Kaduna, Zamfara, Kano, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Zaria among others. Sometimes, when we want to wreak havoc on
Christians, we hire our own bus because we
have our own weapons, which we use against
the Christians. We usually join the Boko Haram
sect whenever they wanted to fight the
Christians or the soldiers because we usually hear that soldiers kill our Boko Haram brothers
in Maiduguri, Yobe and Potiskum. I used to be one of the most trusted hands in
the group because I was a very obedient and
loyal follower. I had my own secret office
where I received delegates from our sponsors
whenever our leader wasn’t around and where I
attend to the needs of any of our members. This is why I didn’t participate in many of our
attacks against the Christians or the soldiers
because I used to take care of the home front.
Our leaders usually psyched us up, they
brainwashed us to fight against Christians
because they are enemies of Allah. They taught us that the more Christians we were able to kill,
the more our chances of entering Alijonan
(heaven). Many of our trainings hold in the night, around
10pm. There is a bush around the school where
we usually go for trainings. Some aspects of the training we receive are
not ordinary; we used to drink what one could
call spiritual water because it is not ordinary
water. We also used to receive strange visitors
who were not equally ordinary humans. We
receive the visitors in a strange way, our leaders used to summon them: they used to
instruct us to recite some passages in the
Quran and whenever we do that, the visitors
would appear to us during those unholy hours.
They could come in three or four. They
appeared like humans but they are not humans. We know they are not humans. They usually
fortify us with charms for the task before us.
They used to instruct us to be strong and fight. Our leaders also used to render a lot of
assistance to support our cause. They bring a
lot of money in a pick up van and asked us to
use the money to buy guns. Many of our
supplies come from the zonal headquarters
and sometimes, there is a popular Bayelsa man who is, though a Christian, supporting our
cause in cash and kind. I can’t remember his
name now. The Bayelsa man gave us money
and also supplied us with weapons for the
mission. I am the second in command in my camp in our
group, and whenever our president travels to
the headquarters in Iran, I used to coordinate
the group and receive our sponsors on his
behalf. This is why I am able to sit with the
sponsors and know what happens. We had vowed to first kill all Christians in
Kaduna before dealing with others in the north.
Whenever we take the spiritual water, we
become more daring to do any evil. It makes us
more dangerous and if we were annoyed at
such moment, we could kill. The water also fortifies us against gunshots. When we have
taken it, bullets will not harm us. Also, we get
mystery ring from our leaders. About eight of
us were selected for the ring, and that ring
provides almost anything we asked from it. It is
like a personal power for us. I can’t recall the number of people I have killed.
I don’t use gun most times. We usually use
guns to shoot people on the leg. If we ask a
victim: “Will you become a Muslim or not? And
he or she refuses, we slaughter the victim like
a goat. And after killing the victim, we collect his or her blood in a very small cup and then
drink it. After drinking the blood, the victim’s
ghost could not hunt us in dreams. That is what
our leaders told us. And indeed, once we taste
the blood of people we kill, we will not see
them in our dreams. Sometimes, when we don’t feel like drinking
the blood from the cup, we used our fingers to
touch the victim’s blood and taste it. It will still
prevent ghost of victim from hunting us in
dreams. We used to kill Christians because we believe
that by killing them, we will enter heaven at
death. Our leaders used a Quranic passage that
seems to support our action (Recites some
Quranic lines). In interpretation, the passage
says: “O you believers, you should not be friendly with your enemies.” ‘Believers’ here
means we, the Muslims and ‘enemies’ are the
Christians. The leaders of our group and the sponsors are
many. Our sponsors are wealthy Nigerians.
They are in government, and many are past
Nigerian leaders. If I mention their names, you
would think I am just telling lies. We have
governors, senators who sponsor us heavily. Our sponsors are many (Names mentioned are
withheld). You wouldn’t believe some of them
are really part of us. We usually invite them to
the graduation of the students in the school.
That is when many know them as part of us. We have days we go to town to preach and win
more members. On such days, we add a red cap
to our white T-Shirt and trousers. On another
occasion when we put on black caps, it means
we won’t fight.
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