Insecurity: Lakurawa terrorists establish camp in Niger, behead three
By Ndukaku Ihe
The new terrorist group, the Lakurawa sect has beheaded three people in Niger State even as it has formally established a camp in the state.
AbeyaNews gathered that the group has hoisted its flag at Kemenji, in the Borgu sector of Kainji Lake National Park in Borgu local government area of the Niger State.
The group, numbering about 200 according to local source in the area, arrived on Sunday in about 68 motorcycles with each of the motorcycles carrying between three and two members of the group.
“We did not know where they came from but they told us that they are Lakurawa sects and that they have come to help their members who are constantly being harassed”, a villager told our correspondent via phone on Tuesday.
Our source said that their first point of call was Olli river where they hijacked some local boat drivers and ordered them to be ferried across to Awuru community in Borgu local government.
The group told our source that the terrorists were fully armed to the teeth with AK-47 rifles and other dangerous guns, and ordered the local boat operators to ferry them across to Awuru community or the entire people will be wiped out.
They were ferried in group to avoid a mishap even when they warned the drivers that any mishap will be with heavy consequences for the community.
It was further gathered that the group proceeded to Kada Olli village from where a masked man on a motorbike appeared and led them into the forest near Kemenji village, in the Borgu sector of Kainji Lake National Park.
While on their way to their destination, the sects were said to have slaughtered three men they met working in their farms without any provocation and shot another woman on her head who died instantly.
Their bodies were evacuated later by the community after the terrorists had gone
According to our source, the security agents in the area were alerted on the movement of the terrorists and this prompted an aerial surveillance by a helicopter on Monday after the sects had disappeared into forest.
The arrival of Lakurawa sects to the state is coming four years after the dreaded Boko Haram sects hoisted it’s flag in Kaore in Shiroro local government area of the state.
It would be recalled that the immediate past governor of the state, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello had in 2021, confirmed that the Boko Haram sects had hoisted its flag in Kaore and some other communities in Shiroro local government area of the state.
He warned then that the terrorists were trying to make Kaore their home and headquarters like they did to Sambisa forest, stressing that “the danger is that while Sambisa forest is several kilometres away from Abuja, Kaore is only two hours drive to Abuja”.
This, he warned, will make the federal capital unsafe if nothing urgently is done to curtail the situation.
But AbeyaNews reports that there is no official statement from either the government or the state police command on this latest development.
