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Beware of auto-mechanic and car wash centres
across the country, a bomb might just have been
planted there.
This warning came in the aftermath of the
heavy casualties inflicted on Boko Haram
insurgents in recent weeks, as indications
emerged that the group is recruiting auto-
mechanic and car wash operators across the
country to use their centres as loading bays to
plant Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs) on
vehicles of unsuspecting members of the public to
cause havoc.
According to military sources, the objective is to
hit at some top government establishments and
functionaries as well as military and police
locations in other parts of the country outside
the North East, epicentre of the insurgency, to
divert attention from the increasingly successful
onslaught on the group in recent days.
Boko Haram group had therefore infiltrated the
ranks of many of the operators and bought
them over with mouth-watering sums of money
to look the other way when the explosives were
being planted on the vehicles, the sources told
Vanguard.
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.
A signal confirming this development and
addressed to all military formations in the
country said: “Boko Haram infiltrates auto-
mechanic and car wash centres.”
It said the group was planning to use vehicles of
unsuspecting members of the public, especially
prominent persons and top functionaries as
bomb carriers.
Targets of such dastardly plots, according to the
signal, are official government quarters, military
barracks and public centres.
The military therefore urged the public, vehicles
owners and users to be vigilant and watchful,
especially when giving and collecting their
vehicles from auto-mechanic and car wash
centres.
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