“Things are happening; they are finishing (killing) us, and if it continues like this, what will happen to the young generation?” Mr Sububu stated in the six-minute video.
A video released closing Tuesday by Halilu Sububu, the terrorism kingpin later killed by Nigerian troopers in an ambush the the same day, indicates he had a premonition of his have dying.
In the video, the now-deceased terrorist urged the leading terrorists operating in the Northwest states and North Central Niger Sing to include peace and restraint.
Mr Sububu became killed in the Kuzawa and Mayanchi areas alongside the Gusau-Sokoto freeway in the Maru Local Govt rental of Zamfara Sing two days after he recorded the video. Sources stated he became killed alongside just a few of his footsoldiers as they crossed the freeway en path to the Bagega wooded field, where he had his enclave.
Mr Sububu became among 43 persons in the Northwest field the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) declared wanted for terrorism in March. The others include Alhaji Shingi, Malindi Yakubu, Boka, Dogo Gide, Ado Aliero, Bello Turji, Dan Bokkolo, Labi Yadi, Nagala, Saidu Idris, Sani Gurgu, and Kachalla Rugga.
Certainly probably the most wanted terrorists, Mr Rugga, born Usman Idris, in an queer interview with this newspaper in August 2021, explained why he field a condition for peace in Safana Local Govt Location of Katsina Sing after safety brokers burnt his region and arrested his higher halves.
Halilu Sububu’s video
In the about six minutes video recorded in Hausa, Mr Sububu urged his fellow terrorism kingpins in the areas – Mr Gide and Bello Turji, among others – to shut attacking the Fulanis and communities that did no longer threaten their criminal enterprises.
“I am calling on you to fight for the rights of our individuals for the sake of brotherhood; let us close killing and stealing from our individuals. Quit killing and stealing from the Fulanis in Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Niger, Kaduna and Kebbi states.
“I am Kachallah Halilu Sububu, the godfather of Bello Turji. In this video I launch on Tuesday, I plead with you to thrill close stealing from the Fulanis and any town that is never fighting us and be obedient to God. Let us re-strategise.
“This is my position; I am waiting for the response of Alhaji Ado (Aleiro), Alhaji Nashama, Alhaji Shingi, Dogo Gide, Gwaska, and Black”, he stated in the video, citing countries where the Fulanis are united.
In the video, Mr Sububu, surrounded by gun-totting terrorists, just a few of them underaged formative years, lamented that militia operations had killed several gang leaders and their footsoldiers.
He encouraged the terrorists to maintain interaction the authorities in a peace dialogue, warning them in regards to the uncertainty of their living, that the following day they’ll also neutral be killed while the long poke of the younger know-how remains at menace.
“Things are happening; they are finishing (killing) us, and if it continues adore this, what’s going to happen to the younger know-how? On the present time, it would also neutral be you and the following day, every other individual. Right here is the truth and the reason I launch this video.
“I am saying this – even though finally the proposed peace dialogue between us and the authorities fails, let us refrain from attacking the Fulanis for peace to reign. I am calling on the clerics to consume their pulpits to pray for peace and dialogue since the authorities cannot attain this; no quantity of troopers, either from Russia, Ukraine, or The US, can close this.
“We, the leaders, if we agree on this, there would be peace, and any of our footsoldiers who cannot key into this, let’s seize the gun from him and let him go,” he stated in the video.
“I am waiting for your response via a group chat; let’s sit down and agree on this,” he concluded.
Properly off terrorist with a various mindset
It’s no longer but definite how the different gang leaders spoke back to Mr Sububu’s counsel sooner than his dying.
Nonetheless, Mr Gide, who fled to Magami wooded field in Gusau Local Govt Location of Zamfara after troopers raided his outdated Babban Doka hideout in Dansadau Emirate in March, had also identified as against attacks on peasant communities.
Mr Sububu, in incompatibility to his protege, Mr Turji, who is inconsistent on the problem, had moved on from cattle rustling and kidnapping for ransom to gunrunning and illegal gold mining.
Mr Sububu is believed to be the mastermind of the September 2021 deadly assault on a safety formation at Dama, a village in Sabon Birni, Sokoto Sing, which killed nine troopers, five mobile cops and three officers of the Nigerian Safety and Civil Defence Corps.
Since Mr Turji rose to notoriety, Mr Sububu centered on gunrunning and accumulated illicit wealth. He became believed to be the wealthiest among the many terrorists, with gigantic herds of cows, just a few of which are hid in Ilorin, Kwara Sing, and Oyo Sing for safekeeping.
A PREMIUM TIMES Investigation closing December exposed how Mr Sububu diversified into illegal gold mining operations in the true mineral-rich Bagega and other communities around Sumke wooded field in the Anka Local Govt Location of Zamfara Sing.
His shut ties with French-speaking Jihadists in the Sahel field of West Africa (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Senegal) enhanced his gunrunning and gold mining businesses.
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Mr Sububu once referred to himself because the “Leader of the terrorists operating on the northern flank.” He stated so because he provided total logistics to the terrorists in the regions.
He’s believed to invent weapons to terrorists operating in Maradun, Shinkafi, Kaura Namoda, Zurmi, Bakura, Isa, and Sabon Birni in the Nigerian North-west field.
He initiated Turji, Lauwali Dodo, Ali Dan Oga, Chimo, Kwashen Garwa, and Haru, among others, into terrorism. He stockpiled weapons, bikes, and other valuables in his homes, in particular in Sububu and Rudani.
‘Son of a thief who grew to turn into a thief’
Mr Sububu became born in the listless Eighties as Halilu Jammare. His father, a Fulani herder, Jammare, became born in Jajjaye, a community shut to Sububu. Mr Sububu’s mother crossed from the Niger Republic into Nigeria alongside with her grandfather through Maradi in the Niger Republic.
Mr Sububu’s father died 25 years ago, according to local sources. “His father abandoned herding and allegedly became a robber. His father was a friend of a notorious thief in the area, Ma’a Jamamare. So, we were not surprised when Halilu became a bandit,” a local source instructed PREMIUM TIMES.
