Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, is dead, HumAngle is reporting.
According to the report, Shekau died on Wednesday evening,
May 19, 2021, when Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters invaded
the terror group’s stronghold in Sambisa forest.
ISWAP, which had broken away from the Shekau-led Boko Haram
faction in 2016 after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), raided
the group’s hideout using multiple gun trucks.
According to HumAngle, Shekau’s enclave was tracked down by
ISWAP using its forces based in the Timbuktu Triangle. His fighters were killed
in the process, followed by a long gunfire exchange between the invading group
and Shekau’s bodyguards.
It was gathered that after his bodyguards were subdued,
Shekau surrendered and engaged in an hours-long meeting with the ISWAP fighters.
During the parley, he was asked to voluntarily relinquish power and order his
fighters in other areas to declare bai’a (allegiance) to ISWAP’s authority.
They had expected Shekau to issue a statement. However, Shekau who secretly had a suicide vest on, eventually blew himself up alongside everyone present during the negotiations.They had expected Shekau to issue a statement.
Sources within the insurgency, however, said that Shekau who
secretly had a suicide vest on eventually blew himself up alongside everyone
present during the negotiations.
The identities of the people within ISWAP’s leadership who
lost their lives to the explosion remain unclear at this time.
Shekau had been the leader of Boko Haram since 2009
following the death of the group’s founder, Mohammed Yusuf. He had been
rumoured to have been killed at least four times between July 2009 and Aug.
2015. In Aug. 2016, the Nigerian Air Force claimed he had been “fatally
wounded” by military bombardments, but the terror group released a video only a
month later showing he was alive and in good health.
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