According to The Punch Newspaper, The Defence Authorities have have said that the members of the Boko
Haram sect have resorted to disguising themselves as fruit sellers in
order to carry out attacks on unsuspecting members of the public.
The Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, said
in a statement on Thursday that the terrorists had come up with a new
strategy to hide bombs in carts loaded with fruits to crowded areas.
He said that the insurgents had used that trick to launch attacks on innocent citizens recently in the North East.
Abubakar said the insurgents who had been defeated by the military
were desperate to carry out attacks on soft targets in order to remain
relevant.
“In continuation with the sensitisation of our citizens on the
devilish strategy of the terrorists, the Nigerian Military authorities
have discovered that the Boko Haram terrorists are determined to
continue letting off bombs and have resorted to masquerading as fruits
and vegetable vendors wheeling Improvised Explosive Devices as groceries
into crowded areas.
“The terrorists now hide IEDs under vegetable wares in carts and
wheelbarrows and move to crowded places where they detonate them for
maximum casualties. The recent terrorists attack in the North East is a
case in point.
“Having been effectively dislodged and decimated, the BH terror group
has begun some systematic isolated attacks mainly on soft targets in
their desperation to remain relevant,” the statement read in part.He urged the members of the public to be vigilant and report any suspicious movement to the security agencies
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