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Confident Mark Hari
Senior Analyst and Geopolitics Analyst at SBM Intelligence, covering Nigerian and West African security, political risk, and geopolitics.
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Aug 14, 2026
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4:00Confident Mark HariGUEST
In one of those strikes and that pressure that was brought upon Yusuf, the Nigerian militia was able to capture some media guys from the group and then found recording and a lot of other sensitive material which sort of opened the military's understanding through the leadership hierarchy of the group.
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4:25Confident Mark HariGUEST
It was those information they got from seized cameras and information from reading ASAP as well as arrested and detained insurgents that this particular list of senior figures came out from.
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4:41Confident Mark HariGUEST
To answer your question as to whether it is what is needed, I don't know if this is what is needed.
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4:48Confident Mark HariGUEST
The military has The security services in general have a track record in eliminating senior figures of armed groups, violent non-state armed groups.
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4:59Confident Mark HariGUEST
But with the leadership of Boko Haram and its affiliates groups, I think ever since 2012, when the SSR arrested Khalid al-Bannawi, the funding The founder of Ansar al-Bukharaan's first breakaway faction, we haven't seen that street continue with that.
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5:21Confident Mark HariGUEST
Shekal died in 2021 and was because of a renewed clash with Islamic State faction.
