Son of Boko Haram Founder Nabbed in Chad Amid ISWAP Operations

The 18-year-old son of Mohammed Yusuf, the late founder of Boko Haram, has been taken into custody by Chadian security forces.

The juvenile fighter, known as Abdrahman Yusuf, was reportedly captured by Chadian security forces in a coordinated operation with five other jihadists, according to Zagazola Makama.
He was in charge of a six-person terrorist cell affiliated with the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a Boko Haram offshoot group, according to sources.

Photos that Zagazola was able to collect revealed a young man, small and thin, wearing a blue tracksuit, who looked strikingly like his father, standing among a group of captives who were obviously older.

According to intelligence sources, ISWAP’s current leader, Habib Yusuf, also known as Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi, has a younger brother named Abdrahman. Although Chadian authorities stated that six suspected members of Boko Haram/ISWAP had been arrested, they did not provide precise information about who they were.

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On July 30, 2009, Boko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf was slain in Maiduguri police custody after being apprehended by Nigerian forces. It is thought that his kid, who was allegedly born in Nigeria prior to the escalation of the conflict, was brainwashed into radicalism at a young age.

He recently became a field commander in the Lake Chad region after rising through the ranks of ISWAP.

“Chadian security forces detained him and his group. There are six of them. He was the cell’s leader, according to a source.

In the continuous regional effort to eliminate extremist cells functioning across the Lake Chad Basin, the arrest is being praised as a major advancement.