The Nigerian military has announced that it
has killed the deputy leader of the Boko Haram sect during onslaught against
the group in Borno State.
The military Joint Task Force, JTF, said it
killed Momodu Bama – aka Abu Saad – on August 4, during an offensive by the
sect on a Mobile Police Base, and Bama Town.
Abu Saad was Boko Haram’s Operation Officer
and second in command to Abubakar Shekau and was one of the most “vicious and
heartless killer in the group with penchant for slaughtering his victims,” the
military said in a statement on Tuesday.
Before his death, the JTF placed a N25
million bounty on him.
The military said Abu Saad was killed alongside
his father, Abatcha Flatari, who was described as “one the spiritual mentors”
of Boko Haram.
He was “in charge of indoctrinating child
foot soldiers who are mainly abducted children,” Sagir Musa, spokesman of the
Borno JTF, said in the statement.
The military increased its offensive on the
sect and other criminal groups in three northeastern states – Adamawa, Borno,
and Yobe – after a State of Emergency was declared there in May.
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