– The Adamawa state government has revealed the new tactic of Islamist group, Boko Haram
– The government says the group’s members now pretend to be epileptic or have stomach pains to attack innocent people
– This was disclosed by the state’s commissioner for information, Ahmad I. Sajoh
The Adamawa state government has revealed that Boko Haram terrorists now pretend to be epileptic or stomach pain patients, attracting a large number of people to gather and express sympathy, only to detonate a bomb later.
The state government, while urging Nigerians to be careful of the new tactics, said it has embarked on advocacy across the state to educate parents to also teach their children not to collect gift from people they don’t know.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Abuja, on Saturday, June 10, Adamawa state commissioner for information Mr Ahmad I. Sajoh, said the government is taking proactive measures to curb the trend, but added that it is difficult to read the minds of people who are satanic.
Boko Haram factional leader, Abubakar Shekau recently claimed responsibility for recent attacks
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His words: “We are also aware that the terrorists now have another tactics which is that they will come to a place where people are gathered and begin to pretend as if they are epileptic or having severe stomach pain, and once people gatner to assist them they will detonate the bomb.
“So, we are also doing advocacy to tell people not to fall for auch tactics. We have had it in the past, the first bomb blast in Yola was engineeed like a street fight. Two people were fighting and people gathered to watch the fight and they detonated the bomb.
“The second one, they went to a tipper garage where labourers were buying food, tbey declared the food free of charge, paid the woman and started giving people five hundred naira gift, then people rushed down and gathered and then they detonated the bomb.
Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai has still battling to defeat the insurgents in the North east
On the recent measures taken to forestall cases of bombing in the state, Ahmad said just before the Ramadan, the government reliased that terrorists all over the world, normally up their game during Ramadan.
“Because of that we had series of security council meeting and infact we did not sleep over this in the first two days of Ramadan, and we took some measures,” he said.
He said as part of the measures taken, the government interface with all the traditional rulers, follow by local government chairmen with instructions that they should also do that with their councillors.
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Last week, the insurgents struck through two little girls aged eight, who died in their own explosion while trying to cause harm to others.
The incident happened in the Nigerian-Cameroon border area in Galdi neighbourhood in the town of Mora.
Watch a video report of the recently released Chibok girls by Boko Haram on ZENITHBLOG.com TV below:
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