Boko Haram Plans To Use Refuse Collectors To Bomb The Houses of VIPs - Osinbajo Reveals

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, July 23, alleged that Boko Haram had hatched a ploy to use refuse collectors to bomb houses of very important personalities (VIPs) in the North-East.

 

Osinbajo raised the alarm while presiding over the second National Economic Council (NEC) of the current administration at the presidential villa, Abuja, where he serves as Chairman

 

The Council, which has the 36 state governors as members, also implored state governors to work out modalities to cut the cost of governance in their respective states.

 

It issued a memo at the end of the meeting through its secretariat where it alerted that the vice president had hinted of the plan by the insurgents to bomb houses of VIPs.

 

According to the memo, the VP informed council members that intelligence report made available to him signalled that the Boko Haram sect was plotting to plant bombs in refuse and dump them in houses belonging to VIPs in the North East.

 

“The vice president also disclosed that security reports had it that scavengers were now being prepared by insurgents to dump refuse laden with bombs in the houses of VIPs,” NEC noted in the memo, adding that Osinbajo expressed regret that the terror group had wreaked havoc on the economy of the North East and the entire nation.

 

Urging members of the Council to rise with one voice in mounting pressure on the service chiefs to intensify the war against the sect, the Osinbajo said the level of sensitisation must increase in order to create awareness through the radio, television and other mediums.