Members of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) have reportedly executed eight spies allegedly working for the Nigerian government.
Naijaonpoint reports that this was disclosed in a post on 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) by security expert Brant Philip on Tuesday.
Brant Philip disclosed that the spies, which include members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and a police officer, were captured from their houses.
He wrote: “ISWAP announced a new series of executions of spies and CJTF militiamen loyal to the Nigerian army, all were captured from their houses by the group, along with one police officer captured between Gubio and Damasak, a total of eight men were executed all in the same day yesterday while they were captured at different times previously from different villages, all in Borno State, northeast Nigeria.”
He also claimed that the recent wave of execution by ISWAP may be linked to intelligence gotten from the murdered Brigadier General Musa Uba’s phone.
“All these executions possibly linked to the intelligence leaks from Brigadier General Musa Uba’s phone after he was captured and executed by ISWAP,” he wrote.
Brant Philip had some days back stated that: “ISWAP released an image of the execution of two of the Nigerian army spies they killed recently, the informants are wearing orange jumpsuits, a full video will likely be released by the group in the future.”
