ISWAP Leader: Military Airstrikes in North East Nigeria Kill Abubakar Shekau Successor, Ba'a Shuwa
The report says a number of Ba'a's fighters in the North East of Borno State, North East of Nigeria were also neutralised during a major offensive
Ba'a Shuwa, was the ISWAP Leader of the Niger Republic Region of Wylayat, Lake Chad, Kwalfarji, Timbuktu Farouq and Sambisa Mantika of the ISIS affiliated Islamic State of West Africa Province
According to reports , Intelligence sources told a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region,Zagazola Makama, that the damaging airstrikes carried out on January 2, 2023 at Kwatan Dilla, in Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State had led to the killing of Ba'a Shuwa and many other fighters.
Shuwa was appointed in 2021 after Abubakar Shekau was killed .
He was Commanding terrorists in Chiralia, Markas Kauwa, Abirma, Buk, Abulam, Dusula, Abbagajiri, Gorgore and many other camps within the Timbuktu and Alagarno axis in the South of Borno State, North East Nigeria.
According to military sources, some of Ba'a's top Commanding Officers included; Khaid Hanzala, Ba'a Idirisa, Rawana, Abou Ibrahim, Mallam Abubakar, Abou Aisha and Abou Khalid who were responsible for the recent attack on the electricity grid along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway
Ba'a Shuwa and his groups of terrorists are mostly responsible for attacks, ambushes and IED/mine towards Damboa roads, Damaturu-Maiduguri, Askira, Buratai, Buni Yadi, Buni Gari, Gaidam and other part of Borno and Yobe States
The terrorists' hibernated in highly fortified hideouts under thick foliage and rocks properly concealed and camouflaged in order to evade air strikes within the Timbuktu Triangle.
