The Directorate of Security Services has alerted Nigerians of plans by the Boko Haram Islamist terror group to attack churches and mosques especially in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
In a memo by the Director of Security Services, Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Ibrahim, and addressed to the National Presidents of Jama’atu Nasril Islam and the Christian Association of Nigeria, the security organisation urged religious bodies to put their members on the alert.
The DSS in the memo advised residents of FCT to report suspicious elements around places of worship to the authorities, providing three telephone numbers for such reports. They are: 09063872207, 09053872208 and 09053872209. It was copied to the FCT Minister, the FCT Permanent Secretary and the acting Secretary, Area Councils Services Secretariat reads in part
The memo, which was passed round via whatsApp and the internet, revealed that the terrorists plan to use young girls.
The memo reads, “Intelligence reaching this office revealed that insurgents are planning to attack the Federal Capital Territory. Their main targets are worship centres and markets with the use of young girls as members of aid groups to carry out their planned attacks.
‘It is in view of the foregoing, I am directed to inform you to communicate the content of this letter to all mosques, churches and markets across the FCT for extra vigilance, particularly unknown persons dressing as aid workers loitering around the worship areas and markets’
