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By Olayemi Esan
After the death of the leader of the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau by rival extremist faction the Islamic State West African Province (Iswap) that said it carried out the killing on the direct orders of Islamic State’s leadership thousands of miles away in the Middle East.
Thousands of repentant Boko Haram members surrendered to the Nigerian troops with their families but some fighters joined the ISWAP group.
The ISWAP fighters had since stormed the Sambisa forest, a swath of strategically important dense forest in Nigeria’s north-east, which was Shekau’s base to claim the territory.
A violent rivalries between these two major Islamic terrorist groups Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram and Islamic State for West African Province, ISWAP had again occurred in Abadam local government area of Borno State on Tuesday 8th March 2022 that left 9 insurgents killed.
This was less than 48 hours after ISWAP terrorists attacked another set of terrorists in Dikwa, killing about 17 of them.
Security Analyst, Zagazola said, that the ISWAP staged an ambushed against the Boko Haram on Tuesday March 8, 2022, in Yauma Wango village which triggered a fierce gunbattle.
The ISWAP were said to have overpowered the few Boko Haram, killing many of them and seizing their weapons, Guntruck and motorcycles.
The ISWAP were earlier deployed to Jabullam and Yauma Wango in about 16 guntrucks to stage an attack on Malam Fatori and Damasak towns.
Recalled that the continued internal rift and the hostility between the two terrorist groups were exacerbated by the killing of Senior ISWAP Commander, Abou Sadiqou Buorubouru and several other Mujahideens who were ambushed by Boko Haram in the fringes of Mandara Mountain.