TWO people were confirmed dead yesterday while two others were seriously injured in a bomb blast that rocked Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, even as Islamic sect, Boko Haram, accused northern governors of hypocrisy in their inconsistent policies.
The blast which occurred at about 7 a.m., along Baga Road within the metropolis, was followed by gun fire from suspected members of Jamaatyul Ahlis Sunnah lid Daawa wal Jihad popularly known as Boko Haram.
Confirming the incident, spokesman for the Joint Task Force, JTF, Lt-Col.Hassan Mohammed, said some suspected members of the Boko Haram planted an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, on the main road leading to Tashan Baga area.
Hassan said immediately after the blast, members of the JTF rushed to the scene of the incident and saw two persons dead and two others injured.
The injured, according to the JTF spokesman, were rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, Boko Haram has accused Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State and other northern governors of hypocrisy and inconsistency in policy formulations.
The sect in a statement posted on its website said the Kaduna governor and the other northern governors approved money for the feeding of poor Muslims in their states last year to curry the favour of the electorate as elections were near then.
The statement said: “Now that they are in power, they have not deemed it fit to re-introduce the feeding programme for the less-privileged. Hypocrisy of the highest order.
Only Bauchi State government has so far approved N339 million for this year’s feeding programme for the less-privileged in the state. And with this gesture, we will consider ceasing hostility in Bauchi State, except when provoked or under fire from the enemy.”
In another development, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has announced the donation of one N1 million to the victims of the Boko Haram in Borno State.
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