Daily Trust reports that the suspect, a tea seller known as Abdullahi, ran out of luck when the village head identified as Ajiya noticed him while passing by.
Ajiya asked displaced people taking refuge in Maiduguri to identify who the tea seller was.
When the villagers got to the place, they recognized their fellow villager who led Boko Haram fighters to sack their community and made them homeless.
The displaced villagers immediately arrested the suspect and handed him over to the military.
Although members of the terrorist sect had been hunted out of Maiduguri by the vigilante youth group known as ‘Civilian JTF’, some of them are slipping back into the city in various ways and carry out attacks.
On Tuesday, October 14, three blasts hit the Ajilari Cross area of Maiduguri, killing at least seven people.
The city has been targeted by similar attack earlier this month, when three suicide bombers disguised as women disrupted the Independence Day celebration by setting off bombs and killing many residents.
However, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, the chief of army staff, has restated the military’s commitment to end the activities of the deadly Boko Haram sect. He stressed that Nigerian army was determined to meet the set deadline of defeating the insurgents by December.
