Following several attacks carried out in a similar manner Mba yesterday said to journalists:
“Established international terror
organisations use female suicide bombers, the major reason is because women
generally raise less suspicion, particularly when there are security layers. If
you have been following the trend of terrorism worldwide, you will understand
that the use of a female suicide bomber is not new. But, it is a new trend in
our own part of the world.”
NAN adds that the police was
responding with the new counter-terrorism tactics and strategies:
“By our rules of engagement and by
our culture too, male security operatives generally are not allowed to search
females. You will see increase in female security personnel on roads and in
other places where stop and search exercises are being carried out.”
Thus the PPRO explained that
Nigerians should be aware of that and prepared to seeing women officers and
operatives.
It would be recalled that a wave of
ghastly explosions has rocked the country within a 3-day period:
July 30, Kano
Female bomber blows herself up in the
attack on Kano Islamic Legal Studies College; from 3 to 6 people are killed
according to various official sources.
July 29, Yobe
Terrorists bomb two mosques in
Potiskum town allegedly using female suicide bombers, with latest reports saying
that 17 people were killed in the attack.
July 28, again Kano
Two blasts, one launched at NNPC Mega
Filling Station at Hotoro Quarter and shortly after that another blast at a
Trade Fair complex near Shoprite mall. Both explosives were detonated with the
use of female bombers.
Although no group has claimed
responsibility for the attacks, it is believed that the dreaded Boko Haram
sect, internationally confirmed as a terrorist group, is to blame.
Now they raise more suspicious
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