Witnesses said the 11-year-old girl who was hawking sachet water at the Gamboru area of Maiduguri metropolis, sighted the man, believed to be in his early 30s, and immediately recognised his face as the man who, in company of four others, attacked her family.
“As soon as she saw the scent seller at the Gamboru Market, the young girl threw away her sachet water container, screamed, ran fast and grabbed him by the collar, shouting in Hausa ‘this is him...he is the one who killed my mother. He is the one who slaughtered my father...help me to catch him,” a witness told Weekly Trust.
Traders said the man could not runaway because of the large crowd that mobilized to the scene. He was, however, saved from being lynched as the police arrived and whisked him to a nearby police station.
“The girl vividly recollected what happened on the night her parents were killed. She told us that the local scent seller together with four others stormed her family’s residence,” another trader said.
In a related development, six suspected Boko Haram members were captured in Maiduguri. Some youths had trailed and arrested four in Mairi area along Bama road and two others at the Post Office area.
In the last two weeks, dozens of insurgents had been captured by vigilante groups formed by young men in Maiduguri who vowed to end killings by the sect members in Borno State.
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