Modu Kime, a terror kingpin working for the Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP), has met his waterloo while coordinating attacks against the Nigerian military in Borno State.

Kime, also known as Abou Maryam, was using the service of a foreign network provider to coordinate an attack in the state when luck ran against him along the fringes of Lake Chad at the river banks of Bisko and Tumbum Tawaye.

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The ISWAP commander was killed by the army after the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), a group of military intelligence professionals, revealed his location. Scores of ISWAP terrorists died alongside the commander during the air interdiction that lasted for several hours.

A top military officer revealed that the terror kingpin had been on the radar of the intelligence services with a Niger Republic mobile phone number, according to PRNigeria.

“For some times we had been intercepting his communication and his coordination of attacks by his terror group, mostly in Borno State,” the officer was quoted to have said. “He had operated around the axis of Tumbum Tawaye, Bisko, Garere, Arkumma and Dumbawa, Zari and Gundumbali LGA.”

FIJ gathered that Abou Maryam had coordinated several attacks on Nigerian troops operating mostly around Damasak, Nganzai and Gajiram, on the outskirts of Maiduguri.

ISWAP is a faction of the Boko Haram terror group which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2016. The group has been responsible for the subversive activities in the Lake Chad region.