In the most recent battle for domination between the deadly sects, no fewer than 23 militants from the Jam’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihd Boko-Haram were killed in an ambush by its rival Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP).
A fierce battle between the late Abubakar Shekau Boko Haram branch and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Thursday resulted in the deaths of a commander only known as “Kundu” and other militants, according to prior reports.
Both instances were corroborated by Zagazola Makama, a security analyst and counterinsurgency specialist in the Lake Chad region.
Our correspondent also learned that Bashir Bulabuduwaye, the group’s chief executioner who was in charge of killing all kidnapped people the group denounced, had turned himself in to Nigerian security forces.
According to reports, he turned himself in along with his wives and children.
He and his family reportedly turned himself in to Operation Hadin Kai soldiers on Monday in Banki, Bama Local Government Area, Borno State.
In May 2021, a section of fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) invaded the terrorist group’s stronghold in the Sambisa forest area, killing the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. According to Makama, Bulabuduwaye was one of the commanders who fled.
“He broke away after refusing to pledge his allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) to form a camp in Kote village in Banki axis, where he was hiding with other fighters,” Makama said.
He continued by saying that Bulabuduwaye and his group of executors had killed at least 1,000 people who had been apprehended and given death sentences.