Insurgency: Action Of South West States Increased Influx Of Criminal Elements into Nasarawa – Gov. Sule

BY AHMED TUKUR, LAFIA – Governor Abduulahi Sule of Nasarawa State has blamed the rise in the influx of criminal elements into the state to the quit notice served Fulani in the South West states.

Addressing an emergency Security Council meeting in Government House, Lafia, the state capital, Governor Sule for the second time in two months raised alarm over the presence of Boko Haram elements in three Local Government Areas of the State bordering the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Benue, Kaduna and Plateau states.

Governor Sule identified the communities as Karu which boarderswith the FCT and Kaduna, Wamba Local Government Area bordering Plateau State and Nasarawa Local Government Area sharing border with Benue State.

He also announced that there is a large presence of unknown Fulani herdsmen that migrated the South West states to Doma, Wamba, Karu and Awe Local Government Areas of the state.

According to Sule; “The activities of what is happening in the South West, starting with Ondo State and recently what has happened to Hausa-Fulani community in Oyo State has worsened the situation.

“We have continued to see influx of Fulani herdsmen especially in Wamba, Karu, Doma and Awe”.

Governor Sule however said that the State government has taken proactive measures to secure its boarding schools following the experience of what is happening in some North West states where hundreds of school children were kidnapped.

He explained that the state government has a detached team of security operatives to secure schools across the state with a helicopter conducting air surveillance across the state.

According to him; “For what we have seen so far, they are renewed activities of dislodged bandits, a lot of them been members of Darul-Salam who have turn into Boko Haram have now regroup in places across the state”.