The Eldest son of Mamman Nur, founder of the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP), Mahmud Mamman Nur Albarnawy, has surrendered to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Maiduguri.
A counterterrorism and insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, said intelligence sources, disclosed that Albarnawy surrendered on Sunday, May 12, 2024.
Makama confirmed that the 22-year-old is the eldest son of the late ISWAP founder after undergoing profiling at the Command Headquarters of NSCDC in Maiduguri.
He said that men of the command had facilitated his surrender through his uncle in Gamborun Ngala after receiving the information that he was willing to formally surrender to the Nigerian government.
He was conveyed to Maiduguri by a reliable agent on May 11, at about 1 pm.
He was later debriefed and profiled by an intelligence officer of the command where he confessed to having sneaked out of the Ali Ngulde camp in Mandara Mountain, Gwoza LGA, into Maiduguri.
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He stated that he stayed for about a month at Gwange in the city capital before relocating to Gamboru Ngala without any alarm or distress signs from communities.
Also, during his stay in Gamboru Ngala, some of his late father’s loyalists were persuading him to return to the Lake Chad general area to pay allegiance to ISWAP which he refused, citing the betrayal and eventual execution of his late father.
He confessed to having taken part in attacks in Bama, Banki, Gwoza and several other places as a middle rank fighter under the Boko Haram group.
Meanwhile, he has been handed over to Bulunkutu rehabilitation facility for further documentation and custody.
