TROUBLE started at about 8.00 a.m. on Monday following bomb blasts at
Dala Alemderi ward of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, where an
unconfirmed report put the death toll at six, following sporadic
gunshots immediately the blast occurred.
Fleeing residents of Alemderi who spoke to Nigerian Tribune said that
the blast shattered the patrol vehicle of the Joint Task Force on
Operation Restore Order in Borno, living an army officer dead.
According to the man who identified himself as Mohammed Sani,
“immediately after the blasts, we could not tell exactly whether it was
an exchange of fire between the JTF and Boko Haram members, or it was
the military that were firing, but people were killed, shops were burnt
and several cars also were damaged. The military went mad because it
affected one of them as such we had to flee the area because we all knew
what would happen next.”
The JTF spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Mohammed Hassan, told Nigerian
Tribune that the bomb was planted near a high tension cable on the road
heading to Dala Kabamti (the local beer joint where hundreds of people
were massacred by unknown gunmen).
According to Lieutenant-Colonel Hassan, the sect planted the bomb
targeting the JTF which unfortunately got at them, adding that there
would be a news release from the JTF to that effect and that they would
explain everything later.
But when Nigerian Tribune contacted the Field Operation Commander,
Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, he said that the blasts ripped apart the JTF
vehicle killing a NAF officer.
He explained that this was what the JTF had been fighting and nobody
was spared by the sect members. “We would get them and they would
definitely face the music,” he added.
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