18th July, 2017
The Nigerian Army has warned of some new tactics it said the Boko Haram insurgents now employ to get at residents mostly in Borno State.
The Army spokesman of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement he issued yesterday in Maiduguri, said, “Recent developments indicate that the terrorist group is now exploiting deceptive tactics to lure unsuspecting members of the public to target areas before detonating their suicide bomb to attain maximum casualty.”
He said they now caused confusion or staged something of mass appeal that made people to gather around them before they detonate their suicide bombs. Another antic, he said, is by abducting children who are on errands, strapping them with suicide vests and sending them back home where the suicide bomb detonates to kill members of the household.
“These deceptive tactics have been found to have played out in recent suicide bomb attacks carried out by the Boko Haram terrorists. Members of the public are therefore advised to sensitize their children and wards,” he said.