TERRORISM WATCH: BOKO HARAM CLAIMS MUBI ATTACK, SAY STATE OF EMERGENCY WON'T STOP THEM

The purported spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for separate attacks on a church in Gombe that killed six people and Christian mourners in Mubi that killed around 20 people.

The spokesman who goes by the name Abul Qaqa said the attacks were in response to an ultimatum he issued on Sunday giving Christians three days to leave the country’s mainly Muslim north.

Abul Qaqa, who has claimed to be speak on behalf of Boko Haram numerous times in the past made this statement to journalists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri by phone.

“We are responsible for the attacks in Mubi and Gombe...We are extending our frontiers to other places to show that the declaration of a state of emergency by the Nigerian government will not deter us…. We can really go to wherever we want to go. The attacks are part of our response to the ultimatum we gave to southerners to leave the north,” he said.

He called on the federal government to release all arrested Boko Haram members as a condition for attacks to stop.

Hmmh...na wa o! How about you stop killing innocent people and channel your grievances in a reasonable and civilized manner. By the way what has happened to Jomo Gbomo of MEND days.

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TERRORISM WATCH: BOKO HARAM GUNMAN AND POLICE BATTLE IN POTISKUM, YOBE

BREAKING NEWS!

Fierce gun battle is going on between Police and Boko Haram in Potiskum, Yobe State.

Potiskum is a local government area in the Northern state of Yobe where Boko Haram appears to have a strong presence. It is one of the local government areas where a state of emergency has been declared. This story is still developing...

TERRORISM WATCH: BOKO HARAM MAKES GOOD ON PROMISE, KILLS IGBOS

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So Boko Haram has killed 20 people at an Ibo Town Hall meeting in Mubi.

Police officials in Adamawa state confirmed that 20 people were killed and at least 15 injured when gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect a group of southerners in a town hall meeting.

Speaking to the Associated Press, local police commissioner Ade T. Shinaba said the attack took place on Friday at noon in Mubi, Adamawa, where a group of Igbo traders had gathered for a town hall meeting before the start of business.

"We started hearing many gunshots through the windows," Okey Raymond, 48, who attended the meeting told the AP. "Everyone scampered for safety, but the gunmen chanted: 'God is great God is great' while shooting at us."

This comes after a Deeper Life church was attacked, Thursday in Gombe and 6 killed.

First it was bombing church and now it is bombing Igbo town hall meeting. Isn't this exactly how the civil war started? As they say in Igbo, do not pull a lions tail whether it is asleep or dead. How will security agencies react to this one? Tell us not to take it seriously...?

Read more at Channels TV and Voice of America

On a different note, I've been away for a funeral in my village in the East, so I missed out on blogging the subsidy protest of this week. We don't have electricity or decent phone network, talk less of internet there and we even had to mix our small petrol with palm oil since the subsidy saga (so that bit is an embellishment to make the story juicier). Oh well there's always next week when the strike starts, work permitting.

TERRORISM WATCH: MORE THREATS FROM BOKO HARAM

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Agence France Press is reporting today that Boko Haram through its purported spokesman, Abul Qaqa has issued an ultimatum to Christians in the north to leave within 3 days. They are also calling on their 'muslim brothers' to vacate the south as well because they have wind of reprisal attacks.

This they say is in response to the presence of the military in the areas now under the declared state of emergency.

Qaqa said the soldiers will only kill innocent muslims.

Read full article at AFP

Well, It's not like we didn't see this one coming. Should Southerners and Christians resident or indigenous to the North start migrating down South for safety? After all a word is enough for the wise and based on president, this is how the massacres leading up to the Nigerian Civil War started. In the same vein, is Nigeria about to have a refugee crisis if this terrorist group makes good on this new threat?