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He is dead, and he remains dead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This development came months after Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram leader, was reported to have been killed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/boko-haram-appoints-deputy-leader-as-iswap-redeploys-commanders\/\">ISWAP<\/a> fighters in a gun battle.<\/p>\n<p>Both factions have been at war since 2016 when ISWAP broke out of the Shekau-led group over leadership issues.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Barnawi, the then leader of ISWAP, had said Shekau\u2019s faction would be defeated by the Nigerian military.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis between the factions had broken out in Sunawa, a town on the Nigeria-Niger border, where many of the fighters killed each other.<\/p>\n<p>When asked when military operations would end in the north-east, Irabor said the army is still assessing the situation, and cannot say when the operations would be concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the state of peace, as long as we monitor the state of peace, of course, there are benchmarks and it\u2019s not for me at this forum to give you a terminal date,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do also know as we move in the upward trend in the state of peace, then of course, that should give you an indication that at some point, we are going to have a review of the setting and whether there is going to be a scaling down of military actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut under the current setting, we have not made such a plan, and we have not assessed that time has come for us to undertake that kind of assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of defence staff, Lucky Irabor has confirmed the death of a leader of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), Abu Musad Al-Barnawi. 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