Some vigilante operatives Thursday intercepted five food flasks filled with bombs outside a popular Maiduguri mosque.
The development occurred during Eid-Maulud celebration, which is the birthday of holy Prophet Muhammad.
Five suspects believed to be members of Boko Haram loaded the five big food flasks (otherwise known as coolers) and were about to cause havoc before nemesis caught up with them.
It was gathered that adherents of the Tijjaniya Islamic sect were marking the Maulud Nabiyi when the incident occurred.
Premium Times reports that the arrested bombers, earlier claimed that the giant food flasks contained hot rice to be delivered to the celebrating Muslims as gifts.
“When we saw them coming with handpush-cart filled with food flasks, we thought they were normal people that usually come here,” said Aminu Abdullahi, an operative of the Civillan-JTF.
“We almost passed them on when one of our members instinctively asked what the content of the large food flasks were, and they said ‘hot rice to be delivered to the Sheik’s guests’.
“All of us were almost deceived but when we insisted on seeing the flasks opened for proper inspection, the conveyors became jittery, and by the time we forced them to open the flask, we were shocked to find coupled bombs in all the flasks”.
Witnesses said the arrested culprits were all surrounded before they could escape and handed over to the soldiers in the neighbourhood.
The spokesman of the Borno State branch of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Muhammed Abba Gava, who confirmed the development said, “it was an act of God that those bombs were Intercepted on time; we have over 5000 people converging in Abdulfathi’s mosque and who knows what could have become of them had those bombs detonated.”
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