The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday neutralised no fewer than 20 insurgents and commanders of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), including Mallam Mu’azu.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Mallam Mu’azu is in charge of the terrorist-established market in Sambisa forest, Borno State.
Amid the aerial bombardment of the forest, report indicates that numerous terrorists fled to the troop’s Operational base in Bama, Borno state to surrender.
Security agents in Nigeria have been battling the armed rebellion for more than 12 years. Government troops are also battling heavily armed gangs in the northwest and separatist tensions in the southeast.
Nigeria received a boost after the US in April approved a nearly $1 billion weapons sale. Lawmakers in America had earlier put a hold on the deal over concerns about possible human rights abuses by the Nigerian government.
Since last year, ISWAP has mostly taken over from Boko Haram after its leader Abubakar Shekau died during interfactional clashes.
Shekau had gained international notoriety after kidnapping nearly 300 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014.
