No fewer than two members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect died in the early hours of Saturday in Kano, when a car rigged with bomb exploded killing the sect’s members while others sustained varying degrees of injury.
The incident, which occured at a bomb factory in Sabongiwa-Gandu, on the outskirt of Kano metropolis, happened when men of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) attacked the factory.
Speaking at the scene of the incident, Brigade Commander and chairman of the JTF, Brigadier-General Ilyasu Abbah, said it would have been another disaster in Kano if the sect had been able to use what they had assembled on innocent people in the state.
He stated that the JTF rescued five wives and 13 children of the sect’s members, noting that the sect’s members detonated the car bomb to prevent arrest and kill the soldiers.
He also informed that the sect had been planning to bomb the state again.
According to him, the JTF came around 12 midnight to effect the arrest of these sect members, but on getting there, they saw that there was no way for them to escape, they decided to detonate the the car bomb, purposely to kill the soldiers.
However, the bomb detonated and killed two members of the sect while others sustained injury, but ran away.
The JTF’s chairman further confirmed that in the gun battle that ensued with the sect , two soldiers sustained wounds in the encounter.
Speaking in the same vein, the Director of State Security Service( SSS), Itam Bassey, corroborated the statement of Brigadier-Gen Abbah, that the security operatives had been trailing the Boko Haram members for a long time.
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