ISWAP Terror Group Holds Public Meetings With Borno Residents To Recruit New Members, Stresses Plan To Have Separate Islamic Country


Militants belonging to the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād have organised da‘wāt in some villages in Borno, SaharaReporters has gathered. Da‘wāt is the act of inviting or calling people to embrace Islam.

In pictures released by ISWAP, sect members were seen publicly engaging with residents of the state around Lake Chad.

The images may be part of the sect’s efforts to counter statements by the Nigerian military that the Islamist insurgent fighters were on a steady retreat, with troops seizing a sizeable territory hitherto occupied and controlled by members of the terrorist sect.

SaharaReporters gathered that during the Da’wat programme, the insurgents appealed to villagers to join the group as militants and support their cause to establish an Islamic caliphate.

They assured them of good governance, better security and basic amenities as soon as they had a new country.

The group also distributed welfare packages to many households in a new recruitment drive.

Packages said to have been distributed by ISWAP included rice, beans, millet, maize, sugar, spaghetti and cash gifts.

A 2019 report by the International Crisis Group, a non-profit think tank, observed that ISWAP’s approach to recruiting new fighters proved effective.

Despite breaking away from the Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram faction in 2016, the population of its fighters had increased, according to estimates.

“Although its leadership has been largely ethnic Kanuri, ISWAP has recruited significantly among lacustrine communities, notably the ethnic Buduma, many of whom earn a living from fishing,” the group wrote.

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has made similar observations.

“As part of this approach, the ideological aspect of the crisis must be dealt with. The ability of the group to recruit is one of the biggest reasons for its expansion, and so a deeper understanding of its recruitment patterns and operating mechanisms is crucial,” ISS senior researcher Remadji Hoinathy warned in May 2019.

Often ISWAP exploits gaps in governance by trying to prove that it can provide essential services in the areas under its control.

Source: https://saharareporters.com/2024/06/09/iswap-terror-group-holds-public-meetings-borno-residents-recruit-new-members-stresses

That was exactly how Mohamed Yusuf started Boko Haram. Whenever he conducted Da‘wāt and people refused to join his sect, they would be publicly executed.

They are govt agents

Although its leadership has been largely ethnic Kanuri, ISWAP has recruited significantly among lacustrine communities,

AFTER THE NIGERIAN ARMY GO TELL US SAY DEM DON KILL ALL THEIR LEADERS AND COMMANDERS😂😂😂😂


THERE WAS A COUNTRY JAREH

One person was to handle the economy while the other was to handle security.

We no dey see working wetin happen?

PUBLIC? Did I read public? I think it’s a typo

Bomb go fall on all you terrorists from Boko, ISWAP, IPOB, IDF to bandits!

they country keep getting worse

ISWAP is religious sponsored terrorism while IPOB is tribal sponsored terrorism, IPOB has more members than ISWAP because over 90% of SE are members, even the bitter grieving obi, it is not hidden

I no understand

Only we can save ourselves.

u will never very see these APC cretins here...

jst change d title to IPOB or anything east nd watch dia small dicks rise like bread...animals

Their Nigerian army, see fish ooh

Lol,Hellanus abeg come and defend you proud mistake again.

This is a town hall different…😷

They are fighting for dead Allah

Public meeting, not a secret meeting. And the government is silent.

I no even know wetin to talk again

Federal republic of Nigeria it is well with your soul

My God! See how they sickly twist the holy teachings of Islam for their nonsensical aims. Make no mistake, Government officials (and international agents) are definitely involved in this whole nonsense.

Which 'Islamic' Country do they want? To be ruled by who? A murderous drug addict with zero knowledge of Islam. No, not going to happen!

They simply want to carve out Borno and all the Sahelian States filled with uranium and precious metals at the behest of their local/foreign masters.

It's like we Nigerians don't understand the war in our hands. Farmers are being killed, inflation is galloping and insecurity reigns supreme.

Now that EU has increased their Visa Fees; by the time a dozen more countries restricts us from visiting their respective countries and they also start deporting us, only then would we open our eyes.

Oti pari

O ti lo'

See audacity

Tinubu is really continuing from where Buhari stopped

Pls, govt should hurry up and grant dis ppl their request of an independent Islamic corn3!


If emilokan can accept dis, I will make him my earthly lord & personal saviour...
make hell-anus my closest pally...
dash yarimo some good cloths & baff am up completely!

I can even go ahead denounce & deny Obi & OBIdient movement 4 it sef!

I'll fully become agbadolized!

SoNature:


Source: https://saharareporters.com/2024/06/09/iswap-terror-group-holds-public-meetings-borno-residents-recruit-new-members-stresses

AUDACITY

A religion call islam

They are not terrorists, they are just doing business - Nasir El- Rufai

You can call them bandits - Lying Mohammed

A fight against terrorists is a fight against the north - Buhari

Very sad

I wish Israeli Army will come and handle this over pampered terrorists