Our correspondent gathered on Friday that the sect had dispatched its trained suicide bombers to notable towns and villages in the region including Bayelsa, the state of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Cities in Nigeria which were said to have been listed by the sect as its targets are Port Harcourt (Rivers), Yenagoa (Bayelsa), Warri (Delta), Benin (Edo) and Calabar (Cross River).
The sect which has held the northern part of the country hostage, killing and maiming hundreds of innocent people with its bombings and gun attacks was said to have vowed to spread its onslaught to other parts of the country beginning with the Niger Delta (Nigeria).
Members of the group were said to have reached the resolution to prove a point to the Niger Delta militants, who have engaged the sect in a running verbal war that all parts of the country including the region were within their reach.
Our correspondent further gathered that to actualize its threats, the sect had begun surreptitious movement of illegal firearms including explosives to the region.
A source told our correspondent that a trailer load of explosives was intercepted recently by members of the Joint Task Force, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, at the border between Aba in Abia State and PortHarcourt in Rivers State Nigeria.
The source who refused to mention his name because of the sensitivity of the matter said that cows were used as a decoy by suspected members of the group to move the explosives to Port Harcourt.
He said the security operatives discovered the arms during their stop-and-search operation and arrested the culprits.
There were also fears that members of the sect were capitalizing on the free-flow of traffic in the highways, following the dismantling of checkpoints by the police authorities, to move the illegal arms.
The explosion that occurred close to the Port Harcourt Airport on Friday morning was said to have heightened the fears in the region.
By, Mike Odiegwu –Punch Newspapers
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