A violent clash between insurgents of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) and the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, in Borno State has led to the killing of a wanted Commander, Ummate Ma, and scores of his fighters.
POLITICS NIGERIA learned that Ummate Ma also known as Muhamma, who was a Khayd (Governor), and several of his fighters were gunned down on June 1, when ISWAP terrorists launched an ambush on the Commander’s convoy at Mandara Mountain in the axis of Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA), on their way to Cameroon.
The ambush triggered a two-hour intense gun-battle which resulted in the killing of scores of Boko Haram fighters.
The ISWAP-coordinated attack was believed to be in response to the killing of a senior Commander, Abou Sadiqou Buorubouru and several other terrorists who were ambushed recently by Boko Haram in the fringes of Mandara Mountain.
Slain Ummate Ma was number 271 among the most-wanted terrorists in the list of the Nigerian Military.
