The Department of State Security Service (DSS) has revealed that the Boko Haram sect is planning to bomb Abuja in the next few days, using seized fuel tankers.
The information, the DSS said, was obtained through intelligence reports. It said the sect would seize petrol tankers at gunpoint and fill it with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other types of explosives.
The Coordinator of the National Information Centre and Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr Mike Omeri, made this known yesterday while addressing newsmen at the agency’s daily briefing. Mr Omeri who was in company of the Deputy Director of the DSS, Marilyn Ogar, said “The Nigerian security services have received an intelligence report that insurgents intend to seize petrol tankers and plant IEDs in the tankers and drive them to crowded places in Abuja.
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He therefore called on the Petrol Tankers Association to be on the red alert and advise their members to report any attempt or seizure of their vehicles to security agencies. He also advised Nigerians to report any broken-down tanker in any part of the territory to security agencies or when they see any tanker driving dangerously.
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