Omg! Civilian-JTF Intercept Bombs Concealed in Food Flasks by Suspected Boko Haram Members

Blood shed was averted on Thursday as members of the Civilian-JTF saved thousands of lives by intercepting bombs loaded in coolers by Boko Haram members who had wanted to bomb many Muslim worshipers today.

members of the Civilian-JTF

 

Thousands of Muslims celebrating Maulud escaped death by a whisker on what would have been a disastrous explosion after eagle-eyed Civilian-JTF intercepted five food flasks filled with bombs outside a popular Maiduguri mosque, PremiumTimes reports.

 

The incident happened on Thursday as Muslims celebrated the birthday of holy Prophet Muhammad.

 

According to the report, five suspects believed to be members of Boko Haram 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. Fortunately, 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.

 

“When we saw them coming with handpush-cart filled with food flasks, we thought they were normal people that usually come here,” said Aminu Abdullahi, an operative of the Civillan-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 suspects were handed over to the soldiers who will in turn hand them over to the police. 

 

The spokesman of the Borno State branch of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Muhammed Abba Gava, who confirmed the development 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”.