People have been kidnapped while driving on interstate roads, while worshipping at church, and while sleeping in their homes. “That is how some of them were actually initiated into kidnapping,” Mohammed said. It declared itself against Western-style education, and began kidnapping children from schools and forcing them to convert to Islam. Last November, the group is believed to have kidnapped about three hundred students from a Catholic school, some as young as five. One of the most brutal is led by Bello Turji, a Fulani man believed to be in his early thirties.