ISWAP Founder’s Son, Mahmud, Surrenders To NSCDC.
Eldest son of Mamman Nur, founder of the Islamic State of the West African
Province,
Mahmud Mamman Nur Albarnawy, has surrendered to the Nigerian Security and
Civil
Defence Corps, in Maiduguri, Borno state capital.
Mahmud who is 22 years of age, surrendered to the NSCDC and has been handed
over
to Bulunkutu rehabilitation facility for further documentation and custody.
This was disclosed by Zagazola Makama, Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and
insurgency expert, in a post on his X handle.
Mahmud confessed of taken part in attacks in Bama, Banki, Gwoza and several
other
places as a middle rank fighter under the Boko Haram group, while, Makama
said
intelligence revealed that, Mahmud was confirmed to be the senior son of
the late
ISWAP founder after undergoing profiling at the Command Headquarters of
NSCDC in
Maiduguri.
The security expert also said, men of the command had facilitated his
surrendering
through his uncle in Gamborun Ngala after receiving information that he was
willing to
formally surrender to the Nigerian Government.
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