The troops of Operation Desert Sanity III and Operation Hadin Kai have successfully eliminated the Islamic State West African Province, ISWAP, top Commander in charge of Vehicle Bomb Improvised Explosive Device, VBEID, Mallam Muhammadu.
This followed the continuation of the troops’ major offensive at terrorist enclaves in Sambisa Forest. According to Zagazola Makama, Muhammadu was gunned down on May 14 after troops raided the insurgents’ dens in Ukuba and Njimia in the Bama Local Government Area of Borno state.
The security expert revealed that the terrorist kingpin operated a major fabrication workshop producing Person Borne Improvised Explosive Device, PBVIED, Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosives Device, VBIED, and Road Side Borne Improvised Explosive Device, RSBIED.
Muhammadu was also responsible for introducing many underage children into suicide bombing after conscripting them into believing that when they died they would go to heaven.
Among those that he used as human bombs were his three children. Makama further said that the troops also intercepted a vehicle that was already armed with explosives which was designed to target them.