Both an intelligence source and a former rebel claim that the founder of Boko Haram's young son was caught in Chad, where he was purportedly in charge of a jihadist cell, according to AFP.  

The movement was started in neighboring Nigeria a few years prior to his birth by his father, extremist preacher Mohammed Yusuf, and Muslim Mohammed Yusuf was arrested along with five other alleged members.  

The Islamist organization has been spreading fear throughout the Lake Chad region for around 15 years, and in recent months, it has attacked villages and military installations with ever-greater bluster.

Although Chadian police acknowledged apprehending six Boko Haram militants, they were unable to determine whether one of them was the older Yusuf's son.  

Over the weekend, AFP was informed by a Nigerian intelligence source in the Lake Chad region that a six-member terrorist cell had been apprehended in Chad.

“The team was headed by Muslim, the youngest son of the late Boko Haram founder,” said the source.

However, according to the source, the cell was part of the Islamic State West Africa Province organization, a rival faction that split from Boko Haram due to ideological differences.  

According to the source, Yusuf was only a baby when his father was murdered in 2009 during a military operation against Boko Haram that claimed the lives of almost 800 people, making him 18 years old.  

A young, thin man in a blue tracksuit, who remarkably resembles Yusuf, is shown standing next to much older individuals in photos obtained by AFP following the arrests in Chad.  

ISWAP leader Habib Yusuf, also known as Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi, has a younger brother named Yusuf, who goes by the alias Abdrahman Mahamat Abdoulaye.

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