- Boko Haram desperate, says Army Director
There were multiple blasts in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital last night.
Boko Haram terrorists were believed to have struck a mosque and the area outside the building, according to witnesses.
“This is to inform the public that there were three improvised explosive devices explosions at Gomari and Ajilari general area in Maiduguri at about 7.21pm today evening.
“Although details are not clear, it is important to note the attacks signify high level of desperation on the part of the Boko Haram terrorists.
“Security personnel and emergency management teams have been drafted to the area and appropriate security measures being taken.
“We would like to state that the Nigerian military would not be deterred in its determined efforts of defeating Boko Haram terrorists in the shortest possible time.
“We would like to assure the public also that now the terrorists have shown their ugly presence in such areas, there is need for more vigilance, security consciousness and prompt reporting of suspicious persons or group of persons in their midst. This would enable the security take appropriate measures against them.
“It will be recalled that their previous attempts to attack and blow up Allau dam was thwarted”
Boko Haram yesterday denied claims by the authorities of winning the six-year war against insurgency after the army said it was pushing “for the final defeat” of the militants.
“We are still at battle ground,” Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the terrorist group was quoted to have said in an audio recording posted on YouTube. It could not be immediately verified.
Shekau’s status has been hazy for a long time with claims and counterclaims on whether he is dead or alive. It is believed in security quarters that he may have died and that some sect members are impersonating him.
Besides, the fact that yesterday’s message was relayed on an audio rather than video, which he had always used, is another pointer to the fact that all is not well with Shekau.
Comments by the military are “propaganda” and “lies”, Shekau said in Hausa, dismissing claims that the group would be flushed out before the end of the year as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The military could not be reached for comments. Text messages sent to both the army spokesman and the acting Director of of Defence Information were not replied. They also did not pick calls.
President Buhari has ordered the military to end the insurgency in three months.
”Buhari said he is going to finish with us in three months. You did not finish with us; there is a lot more to do, you Nigerians, you Chadians, you Cameroonians,” Shekau said in the audio recording.
The latest attack by the group was staged in Cameroon at the weekend.Two young suicide bombers killed three people in far north Cameroon yesterday..
The youths set off their suicide belts in the town of Mora as a police officer became suspicious of their appearance and approached to question them, a security source said.
“The toll is five dead, including two civilians, a police inspector and the two suicide bombers,” a security source at the scene told AFP.
A separate source close to regional security forces confirmed the toll and said the attackers, who aimed to target the town’s market, were a “young girl and a young boy”, without giving any more details.
“If they had succeeded in their plan, the toll would have been terrible,” the second source added.
The military has started reopening some of the schools closed for the past two years in Borno State. Troops reopened a public school in Gwoza on Saturday.
Military spokesperson Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman said schools were being reopened. Troops continue to recapture territory from the insurgents.
The UN children’s agency said at least 1.4 million children are displaced by Boko Haram’s uprising.
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