Auwal Daudawa: Why, How And When I Joined Banditry?
“I joined banditry five years ago when security men confiscated about 40 of my cattle which I inherited from my father.
“We bought guns from different places like you are buying bread… I can not say the number of people we have killed since ammunition has no control… We spend all our money buying weapons.
“The Kankara abduction was carried out by my gang, we took a vow to carry out the operation, we were ready to loose our lives to demonstrate that I had the capacity to do it.
“I didn’t collect money for the Kankara abduction, I only surrendered because God Almighty touched my heart… We have no links with Boko Haram… There’s nothing you can buy in the city that I cannot get in the forest if I desire it.. I have decided to change for the sake of Allah, even if I were to be skinned or killed today, I won’t put up any resistance. I wasn’t arrested, I brought myself here.
“We did not work with any foreign Fulani, what happened was by Indigenous Fulani… We use money we received as ransoms to purchase arms.”
— Auwal Daudawa masterminder of the 300 Kankara students in an interview with Daily Trust.
