Three suspected female suicide bombers were yesterday confirmed dead in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State, when their Improvised Explosive Devises, IEDs, detonated on their way to Maiduguri.
State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aderemi Opadokun, confirmed the incident in Maiduguri.
Opadokun said the bombers died on Tuesday on their way to Maiduguri to cause more havoc. “Three suspected female suicide bombers died in Konduga Local Government Area, about 18 kilometres to Maiduguri on Tuesday when the IEDs strapped to their bodies detonated on their way to the Borno State capital.“All the three suicide bombers were killed and no other casualty was recorded,” he said.
He also confirmed another blast at the Tungushe Dogonwaya area, along Baga/ Monguno highway.
“At about 15.30 hours on Tuesday, explosions occurred at Tungushe Dogonwaya area, along Baga/ Monguno highway,” Opadokun said, but could not to give more details.
In another development, the Lake Chad Basin Commission, LCBC, yesterday, said it would require about N13bn for emergency development programme in areas affected by the ongoing war against Boko Haram.
Executive secretary of the LCBC, Sanusi Abdulahi, said at a meeting of Ministers of Defence and Chiefs of Defence Staff of member countries in Abuja, that the initiative for the emergency development programme was directed by Heads of States and Governments of the Commission, to complement the ongoing war on Boko Haram.
“We have therefore articulated an emergency development programme for 38.5bn francs or about N13bn,” he said.
The money, he said, would be spent in the Region of Lac and Hadjar Lamis in Chad Republic, Far North Region of Cameroon, Regions of Diffa and Zinder in Niger Republic.
Other areas for the development, he said, were Borno, Adamawa, Gombe, Bauchi, Jigawa and Kano states in Nigeria.
Abdulahi said the overall objective of the programme which would last for 18 months in the first phase, is the reduction of poverty through the implementation of development activities in the areas.
The programme, he said, intends to combat the causes and conditions that favour the development of insecurity specifically and undertake actions that generate revenues through agro-pastoral, business enterprises; strengthen the capacity of youth, women and vulnerable groups by financing social and professional integration skill acquisition.
It will also raise awareness in the Lake Chad region on security in order to create a climate of trust, conducive to the improvement of their living environment and illiteracy eradication.
Nigeria, Cameroun, Niger and Chad Republics are member countries of the LCBC, with Benin Republic as an honorary member.
