Boko Haram Plans To Use Mechanics To Plant Bombs In Cars

Aftermath of the heavy defeats inflicted on Boko Haram insurgents in
recent weeks, indications have emerged that the group are recruiting
auto-mechanic and car wash operators across the country with a view to
using their centers as loading bays to plant IEDS' on vehicles of
unsuspecting members of the public to cause havoc.

The objective is to hit at some top government establishment and
functionaries as well as military and police locations in other parts
of the country outside the North East epicenter of the insurgency to
divert attention from the increasingly successful onslaught on the
group in recent days.

Towards this end, Intelligence sources told Vanguard that the Boko
Haram group have infiltrated the ranks of many of the operators and
bought them over with very mouth watering sums of money to look the
other way when the explosives were being planted on the vehicles.

According to the source, the terrorists knowing that many vehicle
owners hardly find time to spend with their mechanics or car wash
operators, have concluded the plot to fix improvised explosive devices
on such vehicles while they are with the mechanic or cash wash.

When the unsuspecting owner of the car comes to carry his or her car,
he will drive off with an explosives laden car that has been
programmed to explode within minutes or an hour as the case maybe and
in the process; he may be consumed by the havoc the explosion will
cause.

A signal confirming this development and addressed to all military
formations in the country said, "Boko Haram Infiltrates Auto-Mechanic
and Car Wash Centers'. It said the group was planning to use vehicles
of unsuspecting members of the public, especially prominent persons
and top functionaries as bomb explosive carriers".

The targets of such dastardly plots according to the signal are
official government quarters, military barrack and public centers.

The public, vehicles owners and users are therefore urged to be
vigilant and watchful especially when giving and collecting their
vehicles from auto-mechanic and car wash centers; the military warned.

--Vanguard