On the 4th of November, 2014 a gang of Boko Haram terrorists attacked Ashaka town in Gombe state, killed those whom their eyes surveyed and carted away hauls of landmines from the storage of Ashaka Cement factory, using a truck.
Since that day this Blogger, just like many other Nigerians, had become agitated with fear that many more deadly attacks may be recorded with those stone blasting explosives at the disposal of Boko Haram.
In matters of days Nigeria began to take toll of mass killings as a result of suicide bombings perpetrated by the most vulnerable human species – teenage girls.
From Minna, to Kano, to Azare, to Gombe, to Potiskum back to Azare, back to Potiskum, then Kano, and recently Maiduguri, girls connected with wired explosives move through the most crowded places to detonate these improvised lethal weapons.
In other wartorn climes, people fear walking over landmines, but in the volatile northern Nigeria the fear is about mobile human-land-mines.
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| Remains of one of the Maiduguri suicide bombers |
A female suicide bomber arrested in Kano state last week shocked the world to announce that over 50 of her likes had been dispatched to the nooks and crannies of the most populous northern city with a mission to kill using their lives as weapons.
These elements have reduced life expectancy by half in the three states, folks are on daily being killed, maimed or displaced from their homes. Many have relocated to cities like Abuja, Kaduna, Kano Bauchi and of course Maiduguri as the situation permitted them.
These cities, especially, Maiduguri, have become so over crowded that it becomes very difficult to know who is who. In this crowded confusion, Boko Haram terrorists did not let both the displaced and the beleaguered dwellers of the cities be, as they activated mysteriously radicalized teenage girls to carry out suicide mission.
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| Another photo of Maiduguri female suicide bomber |
Within the last five week, since after the attack on Ashaka Cement factory, more than 500 persons have been killed via suicide bombings carried out by young girls.
The take of this Blog is to ponder on the kind of intelligence the Nigeria security forces are using to manage the escalating Boko Haram terrorists’ violence.
A lot of questions are being asked as to whether the Nigeria security agents had taken time to debrief the management of Ashaka Cement factory with a view to knowing the quantum of dynamites the terrorists who broke into their storage now have in their possession and how dangerous these explosives could be especially to the lives of the public.
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| Angry youth holding the chopped off head of an arrested bomb carrier that caused the Azare blast in Novermber (Photo sourced from Whatsapp) |
Now that these explosives have been handed out to young girls who probably don’t seem to savvy the dangers of what they were asked to do, what are the modalities being used by the military, the police and other intelligence outfits, to check most of these suicide bombers from carrying out their mission?
Is the strategy still left on the level of “members of the public are advised to be vigilant and report suspicious persons or object to the nearest security agents?”
What are the measures being deployed by the Nigeria security forces to prevent the carnage and these bestial slaughter of humans across the length and width of the northeast Nigeria?
Girls with wired bodies are on the prowl. Death now walks on two legs all over the region; and citizens are running for dear lives – sadly, even our own soldiers and police officers some times take the lead in the race for dear life.
Government has practically lost all clues on how to end an insurgency that resurfaced like a joke some four years ago. The nation bleeds in the north and the land gradually gets crimsoned as the blood of the women, children and able bodied men spills.
Where does the common man run to???
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Source: http://echoesinn.blogspot.com/2014/12/northeast-nigeria-battered-region.html?m=1
