By Uche Mbah
Reports of explosions caused by rocket launchers, Thursday, wrenched the embattled air of the vicinity of the Maiduguri Airport as Presidential jet, carrying President Muhammadu Buhari, touched down at the Airport.
The explosions reportedly wreaked havoc in the embattled town of Ngomari, two kilometers from the Maiduguri Airport.
Reports indicate that five children lost their lives, many houses destroyed, as terrorists bombarded the town, sending a direct message to the visiting President.
Villagers, hard hit by the attacks, were overheard shouting ” Ba ma so”, meaning they do not want the Presidential visit.
Ngomari is near Maiduguri Airforce base.
Although no group has claimed responsibility, terrorists of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), extraction are heavily suspect.
Officially they were known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād.
The Presidential jet, a Boeing Business jet (Boeing 737-700) marked 5N-FGT took off from the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at exactly 10:48 am Thursday and landed at the Maiduguri airport at 11:18 am, the approximate time of the explosion.
Governor Babagana Zulum had invited the President to commission multiple projects embarked upon and completed by the him.
Borno has been worst hit by terror activities, and is unarguably the epicenter of insurgency, with terrorists occupying swats of land and imposing taxes on occupied territories.
The Minister of information, Lai Muhammed, claims there is no place occupied and annexed by the criminals. The opposite is, of course, the truth.
