About five thousand Muslims escaped what
could have been a tragedy as five potential
bombers were caught by officials of the Joint
Task Force, in Maiduguri, Borno.
The attempt to carry out a major attack at
the nerve-centre of the Boko Haram
insurgency is coming hours after President
Muhammadu Buhari declared that the
Nigerian Army had won the war against Boko
Haram.
The five potential Boko Haram bombers were
arrested with five big food flasks at Medinatu
Mosque, where Muslims were
celebrating Maulud Nabiyi, the birth of
Prophet Mohammed.
According to Premium Times, the bombers
claimed to have hot rice inside the giant food
flasks loaded with bombs.
Aminu Abdullahi, an operative of the Civillan-
JTF, was quoted to have said: “When we saw
them coming with handpush-cart filled with
food flasks, we thought they were normal
people that usually come here.”
“We almost passed them on when one of our
members instinctively asked what the content
of the large food flasks were, and they said
‘hot rice to be delivered to the Sheik’s
guests’.
All of us were almost deceived but when we
insisted on seeing the flasks opened for
proper inspection, the conveyors became
jittery, and by the time we forced them to
open the flask we were shocked to find
coupled bombs in all the flasks”.
Meanwhile, the spokesman of the Borno
State branch of the Vigilante Group of
Nigeria, Muhammed Abba Gava, was also
reported to have confirmed the arrest.
“It was an act of God that those bombs were
Intercepted on time: we have over 5000
people converging in Abdulfathi’s mosque
and who knows what could have become of
them had those bombs detonated.”
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