Lakurawa: ACF demands swift action to contain new terror group
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has urged the Nigerian military to take urgent action against the Lakurawa terror group that is terrorising residents of Sokoto and Kebbi states.
The Forum described the emergence of the new terrorist group as dangerous and alarming, adding that it indicates an escalation in the devastating state of insecurity in the North-West, which has become Nigeria’s epicentre of terrorism.
A statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Professor Tukur Muhammad -Baba, said the emergence of the Lakurawa terror gang in the North-West raises serious concerns.
The Forum warned that the group should not be toyed with in any form or be tolerated or allowed to entrench itself, as was the case with the Boko Haram insurgency.
It called for an immediate, comprehensive and thorough re-appraisal of strategies and tactics, to leave no one in doubt about the national resolve to deal decisively with any threats to the nation’s peace and stability as may be contemplated by terror groups of whatever forms or descriptions
