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Direct Proportion Of Female Illiteracy To Female Suicide Bombing In Far North by SamIkenna: 5:28pm On Aug 03, 2014
The policemen who were stationed at the Eid prayer ground near North-West University in Kofar-Nasarawa in the ancient city of Kano were astonished when a teenage girl, clad in a brown hijab, walked confidently and hurriedly towards them where they were stationed in order to monitor the activities in the environment.
Apparently unsuspecting that danger was approaching them, the policemen handled her presence with levity. When she got too close for comfort, the policemen queried her. But rather than stop, she kept moving towards them. Speaking to Sunday Trust on their encounter with the young lady, who later became a suicide bomber, one of the policemen said when the girl refused to stop, they activated their guns.
“At first, we thought she wanted to come and give us a report about a security breach around the place, but when she moved quickly towards us, we all activated our guns. Yet, she didn’t stop,” the policeman said. “When we asked her to stop, she refused. She rather told us in Hausa that if we wanted to kill her we should.”
The policeman said it was while the conversation was going on that a loud bang tore through the air, such that they all had to dive to take cover.
“We took cover, but we all sustained injuries. We went down flat because we were afraid that her colleagues may be nearby,” he said.
Contrary to an earlier report that the female suicide bombers activated bombs from their armpit, the policeman told our reporter that the teenager’s two hands were by her sides when the explosion occurred.
The policeman described the girl as slim, tall and fair in complexion and that her spoken Hausa was good.
“The way she spoke to us in Hausa, that we should kill her if we wanted, showed that she had a good grasp of the language,” he said.
The encounter between policemen and a teenage female suicide bomber was the first to hit the already traumatised city of Kano. The trend had started in Gombe when on June 8, 2014 the first female suicide bomber occurred. However in that case, it was a middle-aged woman who detonated an explosive wrapped round her body at the 301 Battalion of the Nigerian Army Base in Gombe. The explosion killed her and one soldier. The woman was walking towards the Quarter Guard of the 301 Artillery Regiment barracks, located along the busiest Gombe- Biu Road after alighting from a motorbike when two soldiers stopped her for a search. She suddenly hugged one soldier and the bomb went off, killing her and the soldier. The other soldiers with them sustained injuries, witnesses said.
Since last Sunday, no fewer than five explosions have been recorded in Kano in six days. All of them were carried out by female teenagers, believed to be between the ages of 14 and 16 years. In all, 25 persons were killed and 60 others were injured, with civilians being the highest casualty. One soldier and a policeman were killed. The female bomber was believed to be 16 years old, according to analysis done on her remains by security.
As the police were struggling with their injured personnel, another explosion rocked the St. Charles Catholic Family Parish in Sabon Gari area of the state. It occurred at a when worshippers were coming out from the place of worship after the day’s service.
Five persons died on the spot, among them a soldier who was on duty at the church. Two others were injured.
While security said the explosive was tossed from a nearby primary school, the church’s officials said it was carried out by a female suicide bomber who pretended to be a worshipper.
While hosting officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), an assistant priest in the church, Father Val Fadegnon said, “A woman was seen attempting to enter the church while worshippers were coming out. She was holding a book like the Bible. The soldier at the gate was interrogating her when the bomb exploded, killing the soldier and four others on the spot,” he said.
The priest added that though a bomb was also tossed from the primary school opposite the church, it did not detonate as claimed by security officials. According to him, while worshippers were scampering for safety from the suicide bomber explosion, another bomb was tossed from a primary school opposite the church.
“We were lucky that the bomb did not detonate. It could have caused more harm than the first one. The bomber went to the school in a wheelchair, pretending to be a cripple and that was why he was allowed in by the securitymen at the gate. He went with one other person who was pushing the wheelchair,” he said.
The police confirmed that two female heads were picked at the scene of the blast. In all subsequent suicide bombings, the head of the perpetrators were seen at the scene of the explosion.
Last Monday, two other teen female suicide bombers struck in the state. The first one blew herself up at the NNPC mega station in Hotoro area of the state, around 10.00am, killing three others, including an attendant.
A security guard at the filling station said the female suicide bomber disguised as if she wanted to buy kerosene and that after joining the queue she detonated the explosive.
“She was carrying a gallon, like all other women at the filling station, as she was approaching the kerosene pump. She detonated the bomb from her dress. Nobody noticed her because almost all those on the queue were women,” he said.
Speaking on her hospital bed one of the victims, Hadiza Dauda, 45, said she was on queue approaching the pump when the bomb exploded.
“I wouldn’t know whether the bomber was the one in my front or at my back, because I was thrown to the other side of the filling station when the bomb was detonated. I just saw myself topless and I was shouting for help, but nobody came as they were all scampering for safety. Almost all parts of my body were affected because I was close to the pump,” the widow said.
Around 1.15pm, another female suicide bomber blew up herself up at ......contd.

link here:
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/top-stories/17714-stark-encounters-with-teen-female-suicide-bombers
Re: Direct Proportion Of Female Illiteracy To Female Suicide Bombing In Far North by nduchucks: 5:32pm On Aug 03, 2014
Obsession with the boogie woman. "Northernesses". cheesy

no be Northerners dey pursue una again, na teenage girls. ah ah.
Re: Direct Proportion Of Female Illiteracy To Female Suicide Bombing In Far North by SamIkenna: 5:50pm On Aug 03, 2014
nduchucks: Obsession with the boogie woman. "Northernesses". cheesy

no be Northerners dey pursue una again, na teenage girls. ah ah.


What are you doing to curb this epidemic? Weekly fiery rhetoric in the mosques across the nation isn't going to provide solution. You need to roll up your sleeves and get to work because you know women are the mothers of the nation. We need to know what you're doing to complement the selfless sacrifice my brothers are making on your behalf up north.

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