In a defiant show of strength, Boko Haram rebels have staged a wave of attacks in the final days before Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s self-imposed deadline to exterminate the group expires on December 31.
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The minister said that isolated bomb attacks on soft targets should not be confused with insurgency, stating that such soft attacks would be hard to eliminate.
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In early December, the Cameroonian defense ministry announced that its forces had killed at least 100 Boko Haram fighters and rescued over 900 hostages abducted by the extremist group.
The bombs that went off yesterday at a mosque in Maiduguri, taking 20 persons to the great beyond, has increased apprehensions among residents that female suicide bombers might be on the prowl in the capital city.
But in an expected show of defiance, Boko Haram countered with a series of devastating attacks on towns in the country’s northeast, claiming dozens of fatalities in a bloody killing spree that began Christmas Day.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described Sunday and Monday’s Boko Haram attacks in Borno and Adamawa States as disheartening and an indictment on the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government.
Nigeria’s information minister, Lai Mohammed, said the Nigerian government had greatly reduced Boko Haram’s capacity to attack and was on its last week.
Musa Abdukadir, a resident, said he had counted more than 50 bodies in the hospital after the blast.
No group or individual has so far claimed responsibility for the deadly blast, however, Nigerian officials often blame such acts of violence on Boko Haram, which have been carrying out deadly attacks since 2009.
Reports suggested that women have been forced to carry out suicide bombings for the terrorists, who have become notorious for kidnapping thousands of women and girls from towns and villages.
Buhari told the BBC last week that Boko Haram has resorted to using IEDs and is now only an effective force in Borno state.
Maiduguri was once a central base of operations for Boko Haram before it was pushed out by the Nigerian military.
A soldier said the insurgents had fired rocket-propelled grenades into four residential areas on the outskirts of the city. “Indoctrinating young guys… they have now been reduced to that”, the Nigerian president said.
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Militants firing indiscriminately from the again of three vans attacked the outlying village of Dawari, troopers engaged them, and as individuals have been fleeing, a lady bumped into the world yelling “Boko Haram, Boko Haram”.
