Boko Haram commander who killed General Shuwa shot dead

The Boko Haram commander who shot dead war veteran, General Muhammadu Shuwa, has been killed, said the Joint Task Force in Borno State.
The JTF said Ibn Saleh Ibrahim, who led the group that killed Shuwa, based on an order from Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, was shot dead during a joint operation on Thursday.
The spokesman of the JTF in Borno State, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, said Ibrahim was the commander of the Boko Haram sect in the North West and North East.
Musa said several weapons and explosives were seized during the operation that led to the death of Ibrahim and others.
Musa said: “In a sustained follow up operations this afternoon the combine troops of the JTF Operation Restore Order, 333 Air Defence Regiment, the Department of State Security, supported by Armoured Personnel Carriers with helicopters conducted a major offensive operations against the insurgent terrorists at Nganaram, Bulabulin and Bayan Quarters areas of Maiduguri metropolis.
“During the offensive and in the counter attack, a major commander of the Boko Haram terrorist sect, commanding the North West and the North East of Maiduguri by name Ibn Saleh Ibrahim with some of his commanders and foot soldiers were killed by our operating troops.”