One member of the youth vigilante group, otherwise known as Civilian JTF has been praised for his bravery in preventing another bomb attack by the Boko Haram terrorist group at an Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, last Saturday.

Icirnigeria reports that bombs were found dropped at the Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Maiduguri and defused by soldiers of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, also in the city, following arrests made at a bomb making factory in the Borno State capital.

On Monday following a tip off by a young man suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram sect, who had been living in the IDP camp posing as a displaced person.

The youth is said to be the mastermind of the plan to plant a bomb in the camp and then detonate it at an opportune time.

However, the plan was foiled by a member of the Civilian JTF simply identified as Abdulrahman.

He was arrested alongside the suspected Boko Haram member who resided in the IDP camp who led soldiers to the site of the bombs, and they are all being detained at a secured.

According to a senior security souce, Abdilraham was a former member of the insurgency group before he renounced the terrorist group.

He had however given up on his evil ways and joined the Civilian JTF in Bama and was responsible for some of successes recorded by the military in the fight against insurgency.

“We did not know much about him until Bama came under frequent attacks,” the security source said, adding that the authorities “worked with him and he was instrumental in the military’s raid of more than 30 Boko Haram camps.”

Abdulrahman, is said to have been invited into a a security meeting involving the Civilian JTF a day before he was arrested and his arrest suprised many people, including Nigerian soldiers, because of his popularity with the military JTF.

“The last time I saw him was on Friday when we had a security meeting, a day before he was arrested, our source said in Maiduguri a few days ago.

“The information I have is that he was with Boko Haram before he decided to join the Civilian JTF and it was as a result of his link with the group that we recorded a lot of success,” he told icirnigeria.

This is not the first time, members of the Civilian JTF were arrested on the suspicion of having links with insurgents.

Another source close to the JTF revealed that security agents have been arresting persons pretending to be members of the vigilante group but who were actually working for the insurgents to gather information for the sect.

“Some Boko Haram members joined the Civilian JTF when it started. We discovered that some of them joined for the sole purpose of monitoring our activities and mode of operation, which would make it easier for them to attack us.

“We worked with them because they gave us very useful intelligence, while we monitored their moves,” the source said adding, however, that “lot of them were picked up after we gathered enough intelligence on them,” the source said.

The hero, Andulrahman, is currently being interrogated by the army in Maidugiri alongside the others arrested with him.

Meanwhile closer to the Cameroun-Nigerian border, Chadian soldiers had earlier today freed a city they had captured earlier after the Nigerian government told them they could come back.

Source: http://www.naij.com/406760-how-civilian-jtf-stopped-borno-idp-camp-bomb-attack.html

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Are these ones killing boko harams 2? Haba nawa ooo! #God bless JTF! #God bless every optimistic nigerian! #God bless US