MILITARY investigators have traced explosives recently used by Boko Haram bombers to a Chinese factory in Cameroon which the terrorist sect seized a few weeks ago and converted into its workshop.


Over recent weeks, Boko Haram has stepped up its bombing campaign across Nigeria, using suicide bombers, some of them women, including young girls not older than 10. Investigations into this new modus operandi has shown that these mules are being given bombs from the factory and sent on errands without knowing the content of their cargoes. Preliminary findings revealed that some of the teenage bombers were not aware that they were on suicide missions as they were lured on errands without knowing the exact nature of their missions. Fearful that this new approach may lead to an escalation in bombing, Nigerian military authorities are finally considering a full scale onslaught on Sambisa Forest, where Boko Haram has its base.

Already, Nigeria's National Council of State has declared that the insurgency will be crushed by December but the new findings may prompt the government to give military chiefs to go in earlier than that. Investigations showed that the explosives used in the latest bombing came from to a Chinese plant which was attacked by Boko Haram in May. Boko Haram had attacked the quarry plant of a Chinese road construction firm in northern Cameroon near Waza town, which is about 20 kilometres away from the Sambisa Forest. Apart from abducting 10 Chinese workers, a lot of blasting material was carted away by the insurgents. One military source said: “The military and security agencies have started probing how the insurgents came about the massive improved explosive devices (IED) being deployed to attack various institutions and locations. We have done analysis of some samples of the fragments of the IEDs used to attack some of these places. “The second leg of the ongoing probe borders on the need to find out whether some of the IEDs also came from some of the allies of the sect in other countries like the Taliban, Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb and others. But certainly investigation is in progress in order to nip the spate of suicide bombings in the bud.” According to the military source, security agencies are waiting for the presidency to give them a directive to launch an outright war against the insurgents in Sambisa Forest. He added that things have now got to a stage whereby the government either addresses the insurgency or allows the situation to degenerate.

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