Boko Haram terrorist arrested attempting To Blow Up fuel station In Borno

A member of Boko Haram terrorists group has been arrested attempting to

detonate an improvised Explosive Device (IED) at a crowded fuel station

along Damboa road, Maiduguri, by members of the Civilian JTF.

A pump attendant,  Garba Hussaini, said over 500 people with hundreds of

cars waiting for fuel when the sect member approach the crowd with 5

litres gallon, pretending to have come to buy fuel.

According to him, when one of the boys controlling the crowd tried to

prevent him from entering with the gallon, he got angry and removes a

knife, attempting to stab the boy. “In the process, a member of the Civilian JTF noticed that, bomb was tied

round him and he quickly grabbed him before he made any attempt to

detonate it,” he said. At the filling there was obvious fear and shock on the faces of people

waiting on the queue. The manager of the station who declined comment also

asked the pump attendants to stop selling even as some people were

following and begging him to sell the product to them.

” I did not know what happen. I only saw people running and the Civilian

JTF grabbed somebody. They carried him inside Keke Napep and head to town,

later I heard that, he was Boko Haram with bomb trying to kill people.

Actually, I don't know why fuel should be scarce in the first place when

we have a competent president, who is also the petroleum minister. If this

Boko Haram had succeeded, hundreds of people would have gone with him,”

said Mallam Sani, who was on the fuel queue. Another eye witness, Mohammed Umar, said that immediately the man came,

they started suspecting him, then he went back and brought a gallon.

“A lot of people were trying to bribe their way in to have the fuel and

the crowd was concentrated around the pumps. This man just pushed one of

the boys controlling the crowd from outside and was going in when the boy

held his hand, trying to stop him, and the man drew a dagger. We suddenly

saw one of the JTFs grabbed the man from behind,” he said.

“We did not hear what he was saying until we heard bomb! Bomb!! Then

everybody began to run away. They said, he was carrying bomb. For me, I

took to my heels when I saw people running. I don't associate myself with

crowd since Boko Haram started bombing people. But this one would have

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