According to available information by PRNigeria, the terrorists were wiped out by airstrikes on Wednesday evening.
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ISWAP has not given any confirmation of al-Barnawi’s death and Nigeria’s army has claimed before to have killed jihadist commanders only for them to reappear.
PRNigeria also gathered from reliable military sources that an officer, while attempting to provide cover for his battalion of troops against the ISWAP elements, was shot.
The attack was repelled on Sunday morning by the Nigerian Armed Forces, according to local sources in Bama.
The suspected ISWAP elements carried out the reprisal at the camp of the Commander of Boko Haram, Bakoura Modou, in Lake Chad axis on Tuesday.
The Military spoke in a statement issued on Thursday by its acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier-General Bernard Onyeuko
The sources, who are deployed in the North East Theatre Command in Borno State, revealed this to PRNigeria.
PRNigeria learnt that ISWAP jihadists, led by one Commander Modou Bashir Okocha, had a killed Boko Haram Commander
The failed attack, which took place at about 5:30am, 26 September 2021, in the remote border settlement with Niger Republic was swiftly repelled by troops, according to a statement by Major-General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr, the Director Defence Information.
Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, said in a statement on Thursday that following intelligence on Boko Haram/ISWAP movements along the Kamadougou Yobe River line, an aircraft was detailed to respond to the suspected terrorists activities in the area, along the Nigeria/Niger border at about 0600hrs on 15 September 2021.
Gbajabiamila noted with concern, how some “miscreants and criminals masquerading as separationist activists have emerged to wreak havoc, take lives and commit economic sabotage against fellow Nigerians and the state.”
Their nefarious activities have culminated into losing more than 38,000 lives since 2009 when the insurgency began.
The president gave the assurance in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday in Abuja.
PRNigeria gathered that Boko Haram militants who had planned to surrender came under heavy attack by their angry ISWAP counterparts in the Gusuriya community, located in Dumbawa village.
PRNigeria had reported how top commanders, fighting insurgents of Boko Haram-ISWAP and their family members, including women and children, surrendered to troops in Bama, Gwoza, Mafa, and Konduga, among other axes, in the North East.
A video clip obtained by PRNigeria showed a mass of the repentant terrorists, their family members comprising women and children, filing out (in a straight line) from dense vegetation, not identified.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
It further gathered that 229 of the members who are mostly women and children have been handed over to the Borno state government.
A military intelligence officer told PRNigeria that at least four gun trucks belonging to the criminal elements were destroyed by airstrikes of a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) alpha jet while ground troops pursued and eliminated fleeing terrorists.
The insurgents also released the identity cards of their abductees.