Female bombers now disguise in men’s cloth

By OKOSUN DENNIS

In a desperate bid to remain relevant and sustain its dastard acts of monstrous killings, Boko Haram sects have devised another means of sneaking into soft targets with a view to harvesting huge causalities.

In that end, the military has revealed that it has uncovered another devilish strategy of the terrorists, as they have resorted to hiding their true sex identity.  Female bombers now dress in men attire to have access to mosque unhindered to detonate their bombs.

According to the Director, Defence Information, Brig Gen Rabe Abubakar in Abuja on Friday said the latest suicide attack in the mosque at Molai Umurari village in Borno State is instructive as they exploited such avenue to get into the mosque.

He called on members of the public to be wary of suspicious characters irrespective of sex at worship places, markets and public entertainment centres.

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Gen Abubakar averred that having effectively dislodged and decimated the splinter cells of the remnant Boko Haram terrorist groups; they are directing their attacks on some systematic isolated attacks, mainly on soft targets in their desperation to remain relevant.

While advising Nigerian to be conscious of their environment, he warned people to constantly be at alert to this latest terrorist tactics and to report promptly any suspicious persons or objects to the nearest security agency.

“Local vigilante and community should device more proactive measures to curtail such ugly happenings to complement security agencies, as security is everybody’s concern,” he added.

It would be recalled that two suicide bombers killed about 24 worshippers and wounded 23 in an attack during dawn prayers last Wednesday in a mosque at the outskirts of the Northeast city of Maiduguri.