Indeed, an instance of "N41 million" was reportedly mentioned by Qaqa during investigation.
Meanwhile, there are strong indications that the alleged mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing in Madalla, Suleja, Mallam Kabiru Abubakar Dikko (a.k.a Kabiru SOKOTO) may be charged to court soon. Attempts to confirm this, yesterday, did not succeed.
A source privy to the on-going interrogation told Vanguard that Qaqa explained to his interrogators that "a major source of distrust and acrimony in the group was a N41million that was not accounted for".
Sources close to the interrogation provided information to Vanguard which suggested that the money which was realised sometime in January may be the instance in question.
Qaqa also reportedly told his interrogators that "Normally, the money is supposed to be shared to five groups: the less privileged, widows of those that died in the Jihad, Zakat, those that brought in the money, and the last to the leadership to be used in prosecuting the Jihad.
"We don't know how this money was spent and nobody dare asked questions for fear of death. Even those that took part in the operation to raise the money were also always compelled to pay Zakat on their share to the leadership. The leader, Imam Shekau appropriates what goes to the widows, less privileged, Zakat and leadership.
"The leadership also gives out wives of those killed the way he wants and marry some in the name of giving them protection."
"Everyone lived in fear more of leadership of the group even than security agencies. For instance, I never for once believed I could be arrested. I thought I was invincible. But now I've realised that if I could be arrested, if Abdullahi Damasak, the spiritual adviser, could disappear (arrested), then it's a matter of time before everyone is caught".
It will be recalled that Vanguard had exclusively published snippets of the very early confessional statements credited to Qaqa penultimate week.
And last week, Qaqa reportedly told his interrogators that "before I was arrested some of us had already shown signs of tiredness. Most of us were tired of fighting but we couldn't come out to say so because of fear of reprisal from Shekau on dissenting members. Several of our members that denounced the violent struggle were slaughtered in front of their wives and children. Seven were killed recently.
"Besides some of us, the non-Kanuris (Hausa, Fulani and others), in the sect were worried at the trend of arrest of our members. It is either that the security agents were so good at their job or some of our members were moles giving us out. The worrying aspect was that most of our key members arrested were non-Kanuris which raised fears that there's sectional betrayal of members".
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