Boko Haram kill seven-year-old girl

Boko Haram members shot dead a seven-year-old girl during a failed attempt to kill her policeman father hours after group members killed three in a separate raid, the army and police said on Monday. 

Suspected members of Boko Haram, who have repeatedly targeted Nigeria's security services, fired shots into the house of a police sergeant in the northeastern town of Potiskum late Sunday, a police spokesman in Yobe State, Toyin Gbadigisin, told AFP. "They fired shots at him while sitting in the midst of his family. He managed to avoid the bullets and scaled over the fence," Gbadigisin said.

 "The gunmen shot dead his seven-year-old-daughter and seriously injured another 12-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old-son who are now in hospital." In a separate attack in the northeastern town of Dikwa around 1:30 am (0030 GMT) on Monday, Boko Haram gunmen killed a policeman, a civilian and a local politician in coordinated attacks, the army said in a text message sent to AFP. 

 The attackers targeted a police station, a bank and a hotel but were repelled by army troops, according to Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, spokesman of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State. "Three Boko Haram terrorists were killed and many escaped with bullet wounds," Musa said.

A car bombing near a church in the northern city of Kaduna on Easter Sunday killed at least 20 people. Boko Haram has not claimed the attack, but in targeting Christians, the strike resembled much of the recent violence blamed on the group, which has carried out scores of attacks across Nigeria's restive north.

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How We Carried Out Suicide Bombings - Abul Qaqa Confessions

Detained Boko Haram kingpin Abul Qaqa has made further revekations on the modus operandi of the sect. Qaqa, who was recently arrested by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) in a dramatic move to checkmate the increasing activities of the sect, has revealed how the sect carries out different suicide bombings in the northern part of the country.

A source close to his interrogators also confided in our reporter last night that the former spokesman of the sect revealed how the vehicles used for the bombings were snatched at gunpoint, and how the inexpensive cars are used for suicide bombing.

“We snatch those vehicles at gun point. We use the less exotic ones for suicide bombings and just load vehicles with bombs, drive them near our target, park, get out of it and leave them to explode thereafter,” he said.

Qaqa said the exotic cars were converted by the sect’s leader, Shekau, for his personal use while he promises the sect members that they would be sold to raise funds for the Jihad.

He further revealed that the leadership of the sect used the more expensive cars to hoodwink security agents at checkpoints by posing as if they were some influential personalities on a fancy ride.

Qaqa also revealed the controversy which brewed over the disbursment of largesse. According to him, the leader gave out favours to members on grounds of tribalism and favouritism, a development which, he said, angered those who did not benefit.

He said: "The leader (Shekau) takes the expensive (exotic) cars, always saying that he would arrange for them to be sold and the proceeds put into the Jihad. This is never done, anyway. Most of those vehicles end up with him and the Kanuri members of our sect.

“They use them to pose and deceive security agents at checkpoints. The distribution (utilization) of these stolen vehicles is on 'man-know-man. 'Man-know-tribes man' became another source of anger and acrimony, but you have to bear it or you die. Once you are in, you are in. If you attempt to leave, you are seen as a traitor who must die."

Source:Leadership

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