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•Members sent on errand to Lagos

•Terrorists hail from Niger, Mali, Libya, Algeria

•District head beheaded

By Musa Ubandawaki,


Unknown to many, the new terrorist group, Lakurawa, the army raised the alarm about, last week, did not just spring up recently.

As far back as 2018, it was discovered that the group had commenced operations in Gongono Forest, Tangaza Local Government Area.

This is the story:

On December 16, 2018, I received a call from then Sokoto State Director of the Department of State Services, Ibrahim Bello, while on a visit to my village.

Bello said he wanted to see me for a discussion.

I left my village early Sunday morning with my family to meet the DSS boss.

At 2pm, I received another call from the same person asking if I had arrived Sokoto, I said yes. He asked me to come to his office, which I did without hesitation.

My conversation with the DSS boss while in his office was if I was aware of the presence of a terrorist group in Tangaza Local Government. I said no, that I was not aware.

After responding to his question, he started telling me about the emergence of the group and support given by the then Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, to security operatives including DSS, Police and Army to chase the group out of Gongono Forest.

He said Tambuwal had offered series of support to security agencies fighting the group in Gongono Forest, which served as their hideout and centre of the their activities.

The DSS boss asked me to write a report on the emergence of the group and how security operatives in the state chased them out after killing their members and setting the entire forest ablaze.

Few members of the group pleaded for one week extension for them to leave the area completely, saying they sent a member on an errand to Lagos to disposed their cattle after which they will relocate to where they initially came from. The group, according to communities in the area were initially invited by nomadic herdsmen formerly occupying the area for protection against bandits who often conduct series of attacks and rustled their cattles.

Shortly after their arrival, the jihadists who were said to hail from two African countries, Algeria and Mali, established what seems to be like a colony or an empire with strict adherence to Islamic ideology.

The group banned cigarettes smoking, alcoholism, adultery, non-shaving of bears among men and ensured mandatory wearing of hijabs for Women.

Also, the sect enforced Zakkat on Fulani with large number of herds of livestock sale as enshrined in the Holy Qur’an.

The group’s re-emergence might not be unconnected with the location of the forest and its lush vegetation that stands between the borders of Nigeria and Niger as well as its proximity to Niger Republic, the country that shares bother with Algeria and Mali

The Malian jihadists were also reported to engage in the struggle to establish a training base for hard-line Islamic fundamentalism in the area.

During the group’s first encounter with security agents in the densely populated forest in Gongono, many extremists were killed after which jihadists’ flag was recovered.

It is their symbol of authority with Islamic inscription similar to that of Alshabab, the group operating in Somalia.

After the encounter with security agents, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association issued a statement, saying the jihadists were not terrorists as claimed but herdsmen from Mali, adding that nobody should disturb them.

This was despite evidence that they had seized many communities in two Local Government Areas of the state and forcing them to pay taxes.

Tangaza/Gudu Federal Constituency is surrounded by two forests that include DarnaTsaulawo Forest that stretches to Gwadabawa, Illela and Niger Republic and Kuyan Bana forest which extends to Gudu and Niger Republic.

Sani Alhaji Yakubu, a member of the National Assembly representing the area, revealed that the terrorists have joined forces and vowed to make life difficult for people who are predominantly farmers in the area.

He said: “The two forests house two terrorist groups, the Lakurawa who claimed to be jihadists from Niger, Mali, Libya, Algeria and the local Bandits.

“The two groups who were earlier sworn enemies, have now joined forces, making it much more difficult for deployed security operatives to penetrate or cordon the the general area of the forest.

In his motion at the floor of the National Assembly, Yakubu urged the military to deploy more personnel and hardwares to comb the forests to flush out criminals.

“People of my constituency are always in shackles of one terrorists group or the other since 2018 and government is not doing enough to free them from the groups wanton attacks and cattle rustling.”

The first victim of the group when they first arrived at the area was a traditional ruler, the District head of Balle, the headquarters of Gudu Local Government Area, Magajin Garin Balle, who was beheaded by the group after a misunderstanding between the sect and his son.

Defence Headquarters had raised the alarm, last week, about the new terrorist group with strongholds in Sokoto and Kebbi states, saying they are already causing havoc.

”Now that we know where they are, we are already going after them, and we will take them out,” Defence Headquarters spokesman Maj-Gen Edward Buba, said.

According to him, the sect is linked to Islamic State ,ISIS.

He added that when they settled in Sokoto and Kebbi, the people did not raise the alarm until they started their nefarious activities.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/11/revealed-how-herdsmen-invited-new-terrorist-group-lakurawa-to-sokoto/

The only time there will be peace in the rest of Nigeria is when they divide it to cut off the diseas3d parts.

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Wahala no dey finish

Tinubu will slip on this.. nothing concern am.. he already don leave am for buhari and his fellow herdsmen..

Northwest on fire .. next is southwest.. is all trotting down .. just time .. walahi time ..

APC is evil.. only that Nigerians are still underrating the party.

God help Nigerians ..

Frigga13:
Tinubu will slip on this.. nothing concern am.. he already don leave am for buhari and his fellow herdsmen..

Northwest on fire .. next is southwest.. is all trotting down .. just time .. walahi time ..

APC is evil.. only that Nigerians are still underrating the party.

God help Nigerians ..

The terrorists have been around since 2018. Try read and understand, illiterate.

PressMyButton:
The terrorists have been around since 2018. Read and understand, illiterate.

You lack comprehension dey call person illiterate

Na una. Dey disgrace yorub anyhow for this forum..

The make person dey call Yoruba anyhow

Frigga13:
You lack comprehension dey call person illiterate

Na una. Dey disgrace yorub anyhow for this forum..

The make person dey call Yoruba anyhow

Abeg shift, illiterate.

This is what happened when you allowed Islamic terrorist into your country.

All these nonsense will stop when every Nigerian is given the right to bear arms

Is Yoruba Muslims among them?

Just dash them sokoto.
Apart from cultural heritage, no one would miss the state if it left Nigeria.


Just kidding.

Nigeria and Nigerians will continue to bear the consequences of not only allowing somebody like Buhari to preside over the country but also allowing him to remain for eight years . People like Buhari should have been kicked out of govt immediate he was discovered to be a terrorist sympathiser, he allowed terrorism to blossom under his presidency

This nation is sitting on a ticking time bomb with all these militancy groups springing up here and there everywhere . No one ever thought militancy groups could spring up in the east , we always saw the east as business men who don't like wahala or war now they are killing soldiers and police officers daily and even their own people and innocent civilians.
I wont be surprised if a similar group spring up in the south west, it seems don't realise that this can happen in their side too. NO NATION CAN SURVIVE WHEN ALL GROUPS TAKE TO ARMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY

DSS, Army, NSA, NSCDC over to you!

Why are they complaining after declaring 12 core Northern States as Sharia States? The Islamists have come to enforce the strict laws and to terrorize the people. They thought they dealt with Obasanjo's regime but it has boomeranged

The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is ..........,...,.............

And Useless DSS was sleeping and is still sleeping.

Abi, this is also a script?

If na Kemi Badenoch talk this one, the babablu will say she's rubbishing Nigeria.

See how Nigeria has turned into a land for breeding terrorists.

So unfortunate how porous Nigeria is.
Any group can just come from any country and start a colony and no one will challenge them.

There should be no need to send ground forces into the forests. Troops lives may just be wasted for nothing.

Bomb the hell out of them from the skies.

At least Nigeria soldiers will be keep busy.



Instead of forming gladiators in East killing innocent youths

Una go gather dance Lalakukulala the song by Reminisce 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

By now, it seems very obvious that government and people in government at various levels are complicit in the insecurity issues in the North.

But all I see here in this immediate article is an attempt to give them credibility, hype them and make them appear larger than may currently be, giving them the desired media coverage.

They came and established an "empire" (mtscheew! which empire?), collected taxes, linked to ISIS, Arabic inscription similar to one one Somalia, beheaded a village head etc. A veiled hailing to inspire fear.

Investigations, if sincere, should start from this man. Reminds me of Gumi

Nigerian Government are terrorists. Go to Yourube and watch what Ex soldiers are confessing. Have you asked yourself why they have not invaded Zambisa forests?

Like MNK said. The Nigerian terrorist army will be focusing on the East while terrorists over run Nigeria.

They should do and break this country let SW and Fulani’s enjoy their alliance. We will wish you guys well from afar.

Let me laugh again




The north is playing with fire.

These people chose evil than good. They allow Islam to destroy there medulla onlongata. They married many women and give birth to many children they cannot cater for.

In the north one man can harbor up to 65 children in his house ( the results of the many women they keep as wives)

These children will grow and become terrorists.

During elections they are supposed to think with there heads to elect good leaders that will help them in their sorry situations but no, they will be guided by religion to cast votes and the person they must vote for should be a Muslim ( eg 2023 Muslim Muslim ticket).

These individuals have used their ignorance and religious stupidity to cause chaos to their region.

What I have to tell them is this.: " THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING".

When any part of the body has cancer, you cut it off.
Cut off the infected part of Nigeria before it infects the whole body.

A stitch in time saves nine

They wanted sharia, now they’ve gotten it, let them enjoy their sharia in isolation

By the time both the religious and political northern leaders realise the damage their doing to their region all in the name of politics, it'll be too late.
The same card they played with Jonathan using Boko haram is what they're playing again.
Unfortunately for them, the southern Nigeria will continue to enjoy prosperity and human capital development, while they continue to wallow on poverty and religious extremism.

God help us
Nigeria has become something else
Will we ever recover?

Tetrahedron:
When any part of the body has cancer, you cut it off.
Cut off the infected part of Nigeria before it infects the whole body.

A stitch in time saves nine

Cut off what exactly
Where is there peace in Nigeria now

By their fruits we know them.

chiagozien:
At least Nigeria soldiers will be keep busy.



Instead of forming gladiators in East killing innocent youths

Same army you will be calling when ugm and kidnappers nab you