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An intelligence-led operation by a mixed workforce of troops of the Nigerian Military, Division of Division of State Companies (DSS) personnel, and Western Nigeria Safety Community aka Amotekun officers, on the weekend in Owo forest, Ondo State, eradicated a senior chief of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Abdussamad Ohida.
Safety sources mentioned Ohida aka Anwar, who was on the verge of planning large terrorist assaults in some southern states, was killed alongside many members of the terrorist group by the safety forces who led a shock assault on their forest hideout.
In keeping with the sources, the eradicated ISWAP chief beforehand served as deputy to ISWAP Central Nigeria chief Abu Ikrimah, also referred to as Abu Uwais. Ikrimah was arrested by the DSS in 2023.
Following Ikrimah’s arrest, continued the sources, Ohida assumed management of ISWAP actions throughout elements of North central and southern elements of the nation, the place he subsequently performed a key position within the planning, coordination and execution of terrorist operations.
By the interrogation of Abu Uwais, continued the sources, the DSS was capable of collect credible intelligence on plans by Ohida to
assault harmless individuals through the forthcoming Yuletide.
“The plan was to assault civilians through the festive interval and in the end disrupt the 2027 common elections. This intelligence was corroborated by intelligence companions from the UK, who supported the elimination operation,” supplied one of many sources.
He mentioned Ohida deliberate and executed the thirty first December 2025, invasion of Ipele Divisional Police Station, Owo, Ondo State, carting away proper AK-47 rifles earlier than bringing down the station with an explosive. He talked about the 28 July 2022 Suleja–Zuba Street, Niger State navy checkpoint assault through which a number of troopers, officers and civilians have been killed.
He additionally blamed on Ohida, the July 11, 2022, assault on Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja; the twenty third April, 2022 assault on Ogaminana Police Station, Adavi LGA, Kogi State, which resulted within the loss of life of 5 cops, and the February 7, 2022, assault on Okene Space Command police station.
“The terrorist deliberate and executed the twenty fourth December, 2020 assault on a Naval checkpoint in Okene, Kogi State, which resulted within the loss of life of two naval officers, to not point out the a number of assaults he launched throughout elements of the nation,” he added.
“We could not instantly understand it, however the elimination of Abdussamad Ohida represents a major disruption to ISWAP’s management construction, operational community and enlargement efforts in central and southern Nigeria.
“Ohida’s elimination, coming a number of months after after the killing of ISIS chief Abu Bilal al-Minuki, is a really massive blow to ISWAP’s efforts to broaden its operational presence in Nigeria, and underscores the rising effectivity of our safety providers,” he declared.
