The Borno State government has said over 95 per cent of people with Boko Haram ideology especially the founding members are either dead or surrendered.
Special Adviser to the Borno State Government on Security Affairs, Brigadier General Ishaq Abdullahi (Rtd), said this in an interview with newsmen in Maiduguri.
He said the leadership of the deadly group was in disarray as only about 10 of the founding members might still be alive.
Abdullahi said many of the top commanders died due to leadership tussles between the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters and Boko Haram insurgents loyal to the late Abubakar Shekau after he died in 2021.
He said many top commanders of ISWAP have also lost their lives to several crises among them.
The Special Adviser to the Borno State Government
on Security Affairs, noted that the ideology is gone and those parading themselves
now are criminals who do not have the ideology.