Nigeria: Airstrikes compel ISWAP to ban fishing and farming in Marte.

Nigeria: Airstrikes compel ISWAP to ban fishing and farming in Marte.

By: Zagalola Makama

All farmers, fishers, and herders are purportedly prohibited from operating in the terrorist organization’s strongholds in in Marte, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.

After charging them with spying on their activities for the Nigerian military, ABC NEWS learned that the ISWAP Leadership pledged to kill any farmers or fishermen caught in the general vicinity of Katikime, Bulungahe, Kutukungunla, Chikun Gudu, Tumbumma, Guma Kura, Guma Gana, and New Marte. 

The decision was made after the terrorist organization sustained repeated heavy losses from coordinated airstrikes carried out by the Nigerian military against some known terrorist hideouts in Marte, which resulted in the deaths of top ISWAP commanders, a large number of foot soldiers, the destruction of their logistics, VBIED factory, and vehicles, as well as the deprivation of their sanctuary and freedom of action by forcing them to leave their camps for other places deemed to be safe. 

The actions of the 22nd Chief of Air Staff led to the elimination of more than 100 terrorists in Grazah and Wa-Jahode, on the outskirts of the Mandara Mountains, according to a number of on-the-ground intelligence reports about the devastating effects of the numerous airstrikes carried out by the air component of Operation Hadin Kai just a few weeks after the assumption of office by the current Nigerian Air Force leadership under Air Vice Marshall Hassan Bala Abubakar.

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In a same manner, NAF airstrikes in Jibularam and Sabon Tumbum resulted in the deaths of two ISWAP Commanders, Amir Malam Bello and Amir Malam Musa Modu, as well as a large number of their fighters.

Numerous fighters were killed as a result of additional airstrikes that were conducted at Kwalaram, Bukar Mairam, Abbaganaram, and Yarwa Kura. Other fighters were forced to flee while suffering various degrees of injuries. 

The NAF Command in Borno recently used its firepower after its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)platform spotted a converging group of Boko Haram terrorists in AMCHILLE in GEIZUWA. During a daring nighttime raid, they killed several of their fighters and destroyed their vehicle.

Another destructive airstrike was launched at an area in Marte identified as Andakar, Musari, and Klabariya. ISWAP militants who had fled from Kwalaram and Bukar Mairam were killed as a result of the attack that was directed at them. 

The most recent one took place on July 6, when a large number of militants were neutralized at Tumbum SHITTU during a precision, intelligence-driven air strike. 

The terrorists were obliged to divide into five camps inside Marte as a result of the offensives’ success in order to prevent any kind of mass assembly. They decided to only congregate at a site designated as “LARGE” when it was necessary to organize an attack of any kind

The people of the North East have expressed a renewed faith in the leadership of Maj. Gen. Christopher Musa, Chief of Defence Staff, Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Rear Admiral Ikechukwu Ogalla, Chief of Naval Staff, and Air Marshall Hassan Abubakar, Chief of NAF, to finally exterminate the last terrorists hiding out in the region.

Nigeria: Airstrikes compel ISWAP to ban fishing and farming in Marte.