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Nigeria's National News Agency, NAN, published an interview on Monday with a 15-year-old boy whom the government-run agency says admits to building 500 bombs for the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram since his abduction at age ten. 19659002] Ali Goni is one of thousands of Nigerian children abducted by Boko Haram. If he claims to be true, he is one of an innumerable mbad of Nigerian children whom Boko Haram has used as child soldiers, cooks, engineers, and suicide bombers. For much of 2017, Boko Haram appeared to particularly covet the abduction of young girls to use as suicide bombers, as they aroused the least suspicion in public areas that the group likes to target
According to NAN, military authorities identified Goni as "The most deadly Boko Haram member, who had mastered various techniques that can cause the maximum destruction of lives." Goni says he specialized in building underwear Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) during his time with the terrorist group, and built more than 500
In the interview, Goni says he was born from Bama state and was kidnapped and smuggled into the Sambisa forest in northeastern Borno state, the last remaining Boko Haram stronghold in the nation
"We underwent various training the camp. During the course of our induction training, I was selected to be trained on bomb-making technique, bomb detection and explosive demobilizing, "Goni reportedly told NAN. I initially, but they said they would kill my mother just when they stormed Bama. So I finally agreed. During the training, many of my colleagues died while trying to make bombs.
Goni says he is surviving due to his skill in building bombs and not accidentally detonating them, the cause of death for all those in his life. Boko Haram refugee rehabilitation camp in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.
Boko Haram terrorists and their victims in rehabilitated camps , many abducted as children and forced to study the Quran and absorb Islamic State propaganda. This week, the Nigerian government announced that 260 people had a radicalization of their lives and would soon be fully reintegrated into society.
Boko Haram, whose name roughly translates to "Western education is sin," initially attracted Global attention in 2014 with a string of mbad abductions of girls and young women at local Borno schools, in particular, the 276 abductions in Chibok, Borno. By April 2018, the four-year anniversary of the Chibok kidnappings, a UNICEF report found that Boko Haram had been kidnapped more than 1,000 children in the past five years.
Boko Haram, as the group shifted its focus from the village raids to the use of child suicide bombers. Boko Haram used at least 135 children as suicide bombers in 2017, including attacks outside Nigeria in neighboring Cameroon. Some of the suicide bombers used to be as young as seven years old.
The jihadist threat facing Nigeria has grown significantly beyond Boko Haram, including the gruesome attacks by Fulani Muslim herdsmen against Christian farmers, whose land they wish to take to use for their cattle. In June, the global insurer Lloyd's published a report that Nigeria "could lose $ 437 million, about N157.32 billion, of its gross domestic product, GDP, annually to terrorism, to rank third in the world on the forecast GDP loss." 19659004] Violence committed by the Fulani herdsman appears to have reached the end of June, when the Muslim attacks raid several places in Plateau State, hacking Christians to death or burning them alive to their land.
Follow @Francs Martel on Facebook and Twitter An excess of 200 people reportedly lost their lives in the Plateau attacks, leaving the few surviving villagers to take care of the bodies and attempt to rebuild the villages. ].
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