The Federal Government has confirmed that Nigeria is now free of the new terror group, Lakurawa, saying the sect had been chased out of the country.
Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, announced this while addressing journalists at his residence in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara state.
He also dismissed the report by the Commissioner of Police in Zamfara State, Mohammed Shehu Dalijan, who had alleged that Lakurawa terrorists were responsible for the explosive devices that killed several people in the state a few weeks ago.
The Lakurawa group, initially emerging around 2016 or 2017 in Sokoto State, began as a self-defence militia invited by local leaders to combat escalating banditry.
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters identified Lakurawa as a terrorist group affiliated with extremist elements from Mali and Niger, exacerbating insecurity in the northwestern region.
