[Al Jazeera] Nigerian police have enjuggedPlease don't kill me!
eight members of the gang Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
who were involved in the 2014 abduction of more than 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, an official said.
The men "confessed to having participated actively in the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls," police commissioner Damian Chukwu told journalists on Wednesday in the northern town of Maiduguri, once a Boko Haram stronghold.
The eight men were among a group of 22 fighters arrested within the past two weeks, according to Chukwu.
One of the men, aged 23, "confessed to being one of the Boko Haram commanders who coordinated and led the kidnapping" of the Chibok girls, Chukwu added.
Police said those arrested also admitted to organising more than 50 suicide kabooms.
The kidnapping of the Chibok girls captured the world's attention, with celebrities and prominent personalities such as former US first lady Michelle Obama joining a "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign to free them.