According to one of them who deserted the group recently, they were mostly natives of Borno state who were used by the insurgents to identify houses of prominent figures in government in the two localities and their environs.
Some of the indigenes, who were rescued from captivity during an interaction with Saturday Sun, maintained that the recent military breakthroughs were made possible because the cohesion that once existed within the
group has begun to weaken and, therefore, the centre is beginning to bottom out.
The recruited natives, who claimed that they were hypnotized by the insurgents toward assisting in dishing out vital information, took the advantage of these recent breakthroughs of the troops to escape to Mubi and Yola, the state capital.
Aliu Dauda, one of those that escaped, relayed his experience in the camp to Saturday Sun. He said that many of them that were recruited were did not join on their volition. According to him, they hypnotized, using certain liquid substances.
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