I execute victims by slicing their throat – Boko Haram suspect, Zakari Mohammed

Zakari Mohammed, the Boko Haram suspect who was arrested July,12 by the police, along Darazo-Basrika Road, Bauchi while fleeing from Balmo Forest, has said that he has only killed five people and that he did that by slicing their throat.

Mohammed, known as the sect’s chief butcher, was paraded in Abuja today. August 6, 2014.

He told journalists that he was the head of Boko Haram’s five-man killer squad and it only took him two minutes to butcher anyone given the death sentence by the sect. According to him, the four other members hold the victim to the ground while he slices the throat.

The 30-year-old suspect, who spoke to journalists through an interpreter (he spoke in Kanuri), said he joined Boko Haram in 2012.

He has since been in police detention until news filtered in at the weekend that he had escaped.
Frank Mba, the Force Public Relations Officer said the police authorities decided to parade him in order to prove that he was still in custody.