Adamawa State Government has raised the alarm over new antics of Boko Haram.
The State said terrorists’ new tactics include disguising as epilepsy and abdominal pain patients in midst of large crowds.
Commissioner for Information, Ahmad Sajoh, told newsmen at the weekend that “the government is taking proactive measures but it is difficult to read the minds of people who are satanic.”
“We are also aware that the terrorists now have another tactics which is that they will come to a place where people are gathered and begin to pretend as if they are epileptics or having severe stomach pain, and once people gather to assist them, they will detonate the bomb.
“So, we are also doing advocacy to tell people not to fall for such tactics. We have had it in the past; the first bomb blast in Yola was engineered like a street fight. Two people were fighting and people gathered to watch the fight and they detonated the bomb.
“The second one, they went to a tipper garage where labourers were buying food, they declared the food free of charge, paid the woman and started giving people N500 gift, then people rushed down and gathered and then they detonated the bomb.
“We have now understood and going on advocacy to the parents to tell their children not to collect anything from people they do not know.”
On last Wednesday explosion that killed two children last week, the commissioner said: “What happened last week was very simple; a man was driving a vehicle and he stopped somewhere he saw some children playing.
“He gave them a parcel to take to their parents but unfortunately for these kids and fortunate for the parents, it was suppose to be a timed bomb but children being children continued playing and did not immediately take the parcel to their parents.
“And by the time they took the parcel to take it to their parents, the bomb exploded and two of the children, age 8 and 7 died immediately while three others were injured.”
Sajoh said government had realized that terrorists all over the world, normally scale up their game during Ramadan.
“Because of that we had series of security council meetings and in fact we did not sleep over this in the first two days of Ramadan, and we took some measures.”
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