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Nigerian military offers cash reward for information on suicide bombers

Xinhua, January 18, 2017 Adjust font size:

Authority of the Nigerian Army Tuesday offered 500,000 naira (about 1,600 U.S. dollars) reward for information that will lead to the arrest of suicide bombers or discovery of transit house of bombers or factory for making bomb.

Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, said in a statement made available to Xinhua in Lagos that the cash reward for information followed the spate of suicide bombings in the North East, particularly in Maiduguri and Madagali which was "assuming a disturbing proportion".

The offer by the Nigerian Army is to further encourage law abiding citizens to actively join the war against terrorists and collective security, he said.

Usman said anyone with information could reach top military officers with contacts details provided.

The following officers are the "Theater Commander, Operations LAFIYA DOLE, Maiduguri- 09064823221 and General Officer Commanding 7 Division Maiduguri- 09078599985".

The others are: Commander, 7 Division Garrison Maiduguri-08022375305, Commander, 28 Brigade, Mubi-08065504576 and Commander, 26 Brigade, Gwoza-+234 809 721 1700 (WhatsApp).

Also, they could reach Director, Army Public Relations, Abuja-07080217992 and Commander, 7 Division Military Intelligence Brigade Maiduguri-09021668444.

Usman reassured that all information received would be treated with utmost confidentiality and acted upon with dispatch.

The spate of suicide bombings in recent days in northeast Nigeria has left dozens of people dead and many others wounded, in both Maiduguri of Borno and Madagali of Adamawa States respectively.

At least five of the suicide bombers are reported to have been females. Terror group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno on Monday.

Two suicide bombers, including a seven-year-old boy, attacked the university, killing at least five people and injured more than 15, according to local police.

Boko Haram has a long history of using women and children as bombers.

The terrorist group has killed more than 20,000 people and displaced 2.3 million since its insurgency started in 2009.

Nigeria has made a considerable gain on the Boko Haram front, with its security forces having dislodged the Boko Haram fighters from the Sambisa Forest, their last enclave in the country. Endit