There are fears that the state of
emergency declared in Adamawa, Borno
and Yobe States might have compelled the
Boko Haram sect to shift focus to other
parts of the Northern Region. With the
state of emergency, there was heavy deployment of troops and military equipment including
fighter jets to parts of the North East where the sect is
known to be most ferocious in its operation. Reports from Borno indicate that some of the bases of the
sect have been captured. There was a fight in
Sambisa Forest Reserve, south of Miduguri as the military
shelled the Boko Haram base in the reserve, killing at least
21 suspected terrorists. With the North East apparently becoming too hot,
indications emerged on Thursday night that the sect too
might have gone back to the drawing board. Attacks were
carried out in Daura, Katsina State late on Thursday. Two police stations and a first generation bank were hit in
Daura while the terrorists also went on to launch a bomb
attack on the Nigerian Prisons Service facility in Daura
around 10 pm. The number of casualties could not be ascertained as of the
time of filing this report. Street Journal’s findings have revealed that one of the
methods of operation of the sect is to storm prisons to
release members of the sect who have been arrested and
remanded. It has also been found out that one of the
avenues through which the sect raises funds is to bomb
banks and loot the vault.