People walk past burnt houses, on April 21, 2013 in Baga, after a two-day clash between officers of the Joint Task Force and members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram.
Nigerian military said it killed a Boko Haram commander,
Mohammed Chad, on Saturday in the northeast city of Maiduguri during an
operation coordinated and executed by security agents.
Spokesman of the military-led Joint Task Force
(JTF), Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa said in a statement reaching Xinhua
that the late Chad was linked to many terrorist attacks in Borno and
other states in the recent past.
"A special operation was conducted at Ruwan-Zafi
area of Maiduguri by troops of the JTF and operatives of the State
Security Services (SSS)," he added." The operation led to the death of a
notorious terrorist commander, a.k.a. Mohammed Chad, an indigene of
Marte, Borno, who had been on the wanted list of the JTF," the military
spokesperson said.
According to Musa, intelligence reports indicated
that he was involved in the planning and execution of many terror
attacks in and outside Borno. "For instance, he masterminded the attack
on Sanda Karami Secondary School at Ruwan Zafi on March 13, where a
teacher was killed and some female students injured," he said.
"He is believed to be the successor to the late
Ba'ana Assalafi, a key commander who lost his life during a shootout
with security agencies in Sokoto on March 13," Musa added.
Maiduguri, located in Nigeria's north eastern
region, is a Boko Haram flashpoint, where the Nigerian government had
declared and lifted some curfews due to wave of attacks.
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