ISWAP Kills CJTF Leader, 4 others in Borno

ISWAP Kills CJTF Leader, 4 others in Borno

By: Zagazola Makama

At Least four members of the Civilian Joint Task Force(CJTF), including their leader, were killed while others injured during an ambush on Nigerian soldiers in the North East of  Gubio local government. 

Gubio is around 80 kilometers north of the restive capital of  Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

It was gathered that a military convoy was on a fighting patrol in the early hours of Monday between Gubio to Magumeri when they were ambushed by suspected Islamic State of the West African Province(ISWAP)insurgents, around river Kulu’u Isaram.

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An Intelligence Officer, told Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Counter Insurgency Expert in Lake Chad, that the attackers opened fire at the vehicle conveying the CJTF Chairman, simply identified as Mandama, killing him and four others members of his team.

The sources said that some of the troops also sustained bullet wounds during a cross fire with the militants while extricating themselves in the ambush.

“The deceased were evacuated to Gubio town to be buried later in the day,”he said

ISWAP Kills CJTF Leader, 4 others in Borno