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Matawalle boasts Nigeria is now free of Lakurawa terrorists
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, declared on Sunday that Nigeria was now free from the new terror group, Lakurawa.
Matawalle stated this when he addressed journalists at his residence in Gusau, Zamfara.
He boasted that the sect had been chased out of the country.
The minister, however, dismissed the report by the Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Shehu Dalijan, who had alleged that the Lakurawa terrorists were responsible for the explosions that killed several people in the state a few weeks ago.
The Defence Headquarters in October identified Lakurawa as a new terrorist group threatening residents of Kebbi and Sokoto States.
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The group has reportedly disrupted local governance, usurped traditional rulers’ roles and enforced their codes of conduct in the North-West.
Matawalle said “I want to make it clear that we have no Lakurawa in any part of the country, not even in Zamfara or Kebbi State.
“They were not even in Kebbi State as earlier reported by the media.”
He stressed that the military had dealt decisively with the bandits and forced them to return to Mali.
“We have no Lakurawa in any part of the country,” he added.
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