A terrible disaster and blood spill was averted on Thursday during the Muslim celebration of Eid el Maulud in Maiduguri, when eagle eye civilian JTF intercepted suspected members of the Boko Haram with five food flask loaded with bomb outside a popular Maiduguri Mosque.
The Suspects loaded five big food flasks (otherwise known as coolers) on a hand-pushed cart and headed for Medinatu Mosques in the heart of Maiduguri, Borno state, where adherents of the Tijjaniya Islamic sect were marking the Maulud Nabiyi.But they were arrested before they got to their destination.
The arrested bombers, according to witnesses, earlier claimed the giant food flasks contained hot rice cooked to be delivered to the celebrating Muslims as gifts.
Normally individuals usually make charity donations in form foods and other consumables to help make visitors comfortable,during such occasions, which normally attracts thousands of Muslims from different parts of the country, and even from outside it, to the popular Sheikh Abdulfathi mosque located in Medinatu neighbourhood of Old Maiduguri,
According to Aminu Abdullahi's account, an operative of the Civilan-JTF,“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”.The arrested culprits were all surrounded before they could escape and handed over to the soldiers in the neighbourhood witness said
“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.”Said Mohammed Abba Gava, the Spokesman of Vigilante Group of Nigeria Borno branch
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