Before Paul Yusuf met with an unrivaled force, was ‘captured’ and gave his life to Christ, he was one of the most horrendous and fierce killers the Boko Haram radicals at any point had.
While in the faction, his name was Yusuf Muhammed, a name he embraced after the late organizer of the group.
Much the same as Saul in the Bible who later became Paul after his change, Yusuf was against Christians and he would not stop for a second to kill any of them that he ran over and was in every case extremely cheerful at whatever point he was relegated to strike holy places and networks made up of Christians.
Not excessively he didn’t slaughter individuals of different religions however murdering Christians consistently carried satisfaction to him and he adored seeing them endure.
As per Paul Yusuf, his disdain for Christians showed when an Islamic researcher visited his Quranic school in his old neighborhood, Azare, in Bauchi State, and enlightened the understudies regarding Boko Haram and their order to Islamize all aspects of Nigeria.
The minister had told the susceptible Yusuf and his mates that Christians and any individual who didn’t have confidence in Islam must be murdered as it was appointed by Allah and that any individual who executed for the sake of Allah had incredible awards in Aljannah.
Yusuf didn’t stop for a second in joining the Boko Haram order at 15 years old and when he was 22, he was a top part and one of the brutal executioners the organization could flaunt.
Be that as it may, he met his match when he was allocated to slaughter a godly man, Pastor James Gagara, of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), in a network in Bama neighborhood government zone of Borno State.
While giving his declaration in a congregation not long after his immersion, Yusuf described how his journey to slaughter Pastor Gagara drove him to Christ and how he eagerly gave up to Nigerian officers.
Hear him:
“My name is Paul Yusuf yet when I was an individual from Boko Haram, I was known as Yusuf Muhammed. They gave me the name after the late originator of the organization.
I was 15-years of age when I joined Boko Haram. It was after a top individual from the gathering who was an Alfa, went to our Quranic school in Azare to lecture us and enlighten us regarding the group that I went along with them.
The Alfa had revealed to us that the fundamental point of the order was to transform Nigeria into an Islamic nation forcibly and that any individual who hindered us and would not consent to acknowledge Islam must be slaughtered.
He additionally revealed to us that Christians and any individual who was not a Muslim was a Kaffir and in that capacity, ought to be executed in the event that they would not acknowledge Islam. He included that any individual who slaughtered one Kaffir would have been remunerated by Allah.
I was so dazzled by the instructing that I promptly consented to join the order in order to have the option to clear out Christians.
I left Bauchi with the Alfa and was taken to their camp in Sambisa Forest where I and other newcomers were given our fundamental preparing.
After the underlying preparing, we were taken to Niger Republic and Chad where we had further preparing, after which we returned to Nigeria.
My first task was to bomb a congregation in Damaturu and I did it to flawlessness. In excess of 20 admirers kicked the bucket in that assault. From that point on, I was regularly ordered with bombarding houses of worship or Christian people group and I was constantly glad at whatever point I was given those assignments.
I was one of the main 10 killers in the group and separated from bombarding holy places, I likewise executed those we caught at whatever point they wouldn’t acknowledge Islam.
Be that as it may, Pastor James Gagara turned into a thistle in our tissue as all endeavors to murder him had demonstrated unsuccessful. He continued lecturing against Boko Haram and this drove us crazy, combined with the way that every one of our endeavors to dispense with him had fizzled.
We had attempted to murder him on three distinct events yet he generally figured out how to get away and that was the point at which I was extraordinarily doled out to take him out definitely.
The first occasion when I sneaked into his congregation with the spirit point of shooting him while he was lecturing, he was mysteriously absent. Out of disappointment and outrage, I started shooting at the gathering and a few people passed on simultaneously.
After seven days, I and my group sneaked into his home one night and once more, he was nowhere to be found. We grabbed two individuals from his family and returned to our camp.
Our pioneers were getting disappointed and it was simply a question of time before they would kill me on the grounds that the discipline for disappointment is passing yet I think about what spared me was on the grounds that I had never bombed in some random task.
I was given a last possibility with the order that I either slaughter Pastor Gagara or I would be murdered. In light of that, I went on my last crucial slaughter him.
I had effectively sneaked into his home with two of my partners and met Pastor Gagara asking. I drew out my weapon in status to shoot him from behind however the firearm would not discharge.
The snap of the weapon more likely than not alarmed him since he just gazed upward serenely and asked me who sent me to slaughter him. I was furious with the inquiry and the quiet way in which he posed the inquiry and attempted to fire him again yet the weapon would discharge.
My partners additionally attempted to shoot yet something very similar occurred. We got frail and chose to flee however my legs would not move.
My different partners figured out how to come up short on the house however I proved unable. I didn’t have the foggiest idea what occurred however I unexpectedly wound up on the floor, losing all detects.
At the point when I recaptured cognizance a few minutes after the fact, I saw Pastor Gagara and two other men petitioning God for me. I was additionally stunned that as opposed to executing their foe, they were fairly appealing to God for me and requesting that God pardon me.
At the point when they were done, the Pastor inquired as to whether I was happy to give my life to Christ. I didn’t comprehend what he was were discussing. How could he anticipate me, a Boko Haran part who had gone to slaughter him, to give my life to Christ? Who was this Christ in any case?
In the wake of appealing to God for me, Pastor Gagara welcomed a few fighters who removed me and gave me over to individuals from the Operation Safe Corridor who are accountable for the recovery of contrite Boko Haram individuals.
All through my stay in the recovery community, Pastor Gagara continued staying with me and to lecture me. He gave me a Bible and some Christian books and encouraged me to understand them.
After certain long periods of perusing the Bible and the books he gave me, I became acquainted with that I was surely living in a silly situation where I accepted that solitary Muslims would make paradise and that Christians were Kaffirs and ought to be slaughtered.
The day I gave my life to Christ, I had an awful dream of what might happen to me in the event that I wouldn’t acknowledge Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Whenever Pastor Gagara came to converse with me, I readily let him know of my choice and he was so cheerful and asked with me.
After my recovery, the officers permitted me to go with Pastor Gagara and after certain days, I was sanctified through water and he gave me the name Paul, saying that I was only a copy of the Biblical Saul.
I need to utilize this chance to express gratitude toward Pastor Gagara for driving me to Christ in spite of the reality all I needed to do was to slaughter him. I have now discovered harmony and I need to apologize to all the groups of the individuals I murdered and to additionally look for pardoning from God.
I know the Boko Haram organization won’t rest and will do everything to follow me down and kill me however I have now taken comfort in the way that on the off chance that I bite the dust today, I will pass on in Christ and will revive with him on the last day.”
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