The Boko Haram group has released photos apparently showing a rocket-making factory in Borno state.
According to the BBC, the pictures are believed to have been taken in a college in Bama.
“An inscription on one of the machines shows the abbreviation of Government Technical College Bama (GTCB). The equipment appears to have been donated to the college by the Educational Trust Fund (ETF) in 2005,” the BBC said in its report.
“They were sent as a Whatsapp messages to the BBC Hausa service using a telephone number from Cameroon, and have also been published on sites linked to the Islamic State (IS), which Boko Haram has joined.”
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The militants have used used rocket-propelled grenades in the some of its past operations.
Boko Haram launched a campaign of violence in 2009 and efforts made by different governments to put the sect in check, have not yielded meaningful results.
President Muhammadu Buhari has given the military a deadline of December to stamp out insurgency.
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