We’re seen as a threat
“Since 2014, most villages in Borno have become hubs of terrorist activities,” said Abdulrahman Suleiman. “Those who resisted joining (Boko Haram) were fought and killed”, he said.
Abdulrahman resisted the temptation to join the terrorists and was forced to leave his village.
He said many young men and women managed to escape, slipping across the border to states in the South in search of menial jobs.
“Many of us fled when they raided my village – Kurmari, which is about 25 miles from Maiduguri town,” Abdulrahman, who is now operating as a commercial motorcycle rider in Ojo, Lagos State, said.