Security agents have discovered that insurgent group, Boko Haram has launched a new strategy of bomb attacks and are now using cows as moving IED’s.
The Federal government yesterday said the insurgents have strapped bombs to cows and herded the cows to human settlements before detonating the explosives.
The Director General of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Mike Omeri, who is also the Coordinator of the National Information Centre (NIC), revealed this at a press briefing in Abuja but did not say if this method has been used by the insurgents.
He also talked on the situation in the North east and said: “The situation in Yobe and Maiduguri is calm… The situation has returned to normal. “Like Maiduguri, the insurgents have resorted to other means of invading society, and that is why they now use bombs; they strap bombs around human beings.
“Sometimes, they strap bombs around cows, and push them to settlements. “That is why we have been calling for more vigilance and total collaboration and cooperation among citizens. “We urge all citizens to be patient, when you are subjected to searches and checks; it is something that we have to live with.
“It happens all over the world, especially when we are faced with what we have.” On the Federal Government’s renewed alliance with Russia, in a bid to buy arms after the United States, its traditional arms supplier had frustrated efforts to acquire certain categories of arms, Omeri said: “Nigeria buys arms from all over the world and we have been buying arms from the Eastern bloc for a long time.
Nigeria has been figting Insurgent group, Boko Haram since 2009 and have been having mixed results for the past couple of months.
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