Nigerian Military Reveals Boko Haram’s Next Plan

The Islamist group Boko Haram is recruiting auto-mechanic and car wash operators across the country to use their centres as loading bays to plant Intelligent Electronic Device, IEDs, on vehicles of unsuspecting members of the public in other to carry out terror attacks, this is according to Nigerian military intelligence.



According to the intelligence report, the terrorists group is planning to attack some top government establishments and functionaries as well as military and police locations in other parts of the country outside the North East because of the heavy casualties inflicted on the sect in recent weeks.

It was gathered that the insurgents’ aim is to divert attention from the increasingly successful onslaught on the group in recent days.

Intelligence sources told Vanguard that the Boko Haram group had infiltrated the ranks of auto-mechanic and car wash operators by offering them huge amount of money to look the other way when they use their work places to carry out terror attacks.

According to the source, the terrorists, knowing that many vehicle owners hardly find time to spend with their mechanics or car wash operators, have concluded the plot to fix improvised explosive devices on such vehicles while they are with the mechanic or cash wash.

“When the unsuspecting owner of the car comes to carry his or her car, he will drive off with an explosives laden car that has been programmed to explode within minutes or an hour as the case maybe and in the process, be killed by the explosion, the source said.

According to a signal addressed to all military formations in the country, the main target of the militants are official government quarters, military barracks and public centres.

It was also informed that the group was planning to use vehicles of unsuspecting members of the public, especially prominent persons and top functionaries as bomb carriers in other to maximise casualties.

In a bid to forestall another terror attacks across the country, military authorities have urged all vehicles owners and users to be vigilant and watchful, especially when giving and collecting their vehicles from auto-mechanic and car wash centres.

No fewer than 5,000 people are believed to have died from Boko Haram attacks while over half a million others have been displaced from their communities in northern Nigeria since 2009.

The terrorists have said they would stop their insurgency across Nigeria when the Federal Government agrees to their demand of end to ‘western education’ in northern Nigeria.