Fewer people are aware of the Yan Tatsine organization, which terrorized Kano from the early 1970s until the late 1980sbut many of us are aware of Boko Haram’s history of terrorizing northern Nigeria. Maitatsine, who led the terrorist group Yan Tatsine in 1972, was accountable for several violent occurrences in Kano that caused around 16,000 deaths among people in northern Nigeria. Mohammed Marwa, aka Maitatsine, is notoriously known as the most wanted criminal in Nigerian history.The individual who doesn’t run away from his own terrorism lived as a terrorist in the city rather than in a secret cave or jungle. The man attempting to establish his own metropolis, which is more akin to a Northern Pablo Escobar. Mohammed Marwa, a notorious Muslim preacher in Nigeria, was better known by his moniker, Maitatsine. He is referred to as “the one who damns” in Hausa, “Maitatsine,” because of his public statements full of curses directed at the Nigerian government. The Yan Tatsine were his hardline supporters. His birthplace was Marwa, in the northern region of Cameroon. Following his schooling, he relocated to Kano, Nigeria, circa 1945, and quickly gained notoriety for his contentious sermons on the Qur’an. Maitatsine advocated against the use of watches, bicycles, vehicles, radios, and having more money than one needs. He was exiled by the British colonial rulers, but he soon returned to Kano upon independence. He had a significant and growingly radical fan base by 1972 under the name Yan Tatsine.He was detained by Nigerian police once more in 1975 on charges of slander and public abuse of political authority. However, during that time, he started to win approval from religious authorities, particularly after performing the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. In the 1970s, the number of altercations between his supporters and the police rose along with his following. Young people, unemployed immigrants, and people who believed that mainstream Muslim educators were not doing enough for their communities were the major audiences for his sermons. The Nigerian army was brought in by Yan Tatsine’s ongoing attacks on police and other religious leaders by December 1980. Approximately 5,000 individuals were killed in further armed conflicts, notably Maitatsine. Shortly after being hurt during the fights, Maitatsine passed away from either a heart attack or his wounds. The Sunday Trust magazine said in 2010 that Maitatsine’s remains were burned by the Nigerian military and are currently housed in a bottle…
