The Islamic State of the West Africam Province (ISWAP) has executed a police officer abducted along the Damboa-Biu Road in Borno state.
Sources reliably informed Zagazola Makama, that on Sunday 7 April 24, at about 1000hrs, the police officer with wife and children, were on transit from Damboa to Biu for Eid break but unfortunately went through a banned route.
It was later reported that he and his family were abducted by suspected ISWAP operatives around Shokotoko general area located approximately 73/km south of Damboa.
However, later in the evening , the wife and his children were released, while the police officer was executed by the terrorists.
The Islamic State’s West Africa Province is a militant group and administrative division of the Islamic State (IS), a Salafi jihadist militant group and unrecognised quasi-state.
ISWAP is primarily active in the Chad Basin, and fights an extensive insurgency against the states of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Turkey.
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It is an offshoot of Boko Haram with which it has a violent rivalry; Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself in battle with ISWAP in 2021.
Until March 2022, ISWAP acted as an umbrella organization for all IS factions in West Africa including the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS), although the actual ties between ISWAP and IS-GS were limited.
Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west for about 421 km, Gombe to the southwest for 93 km, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon for about 426 km (265 miles, partly across the Ebedi and Kalia Rivers).
Its northern border forms part of the national border with Niger Republic, for about 223 km mostly across the Komadougou-Yobe River.
By Zagazola Makama
