An erstwhile Director of the Department of State Services, DSS, Mike Ejiofor, says the now dreaded insurgent group, Lakurawa, causing mayhem in the North-western part of the country is not new.
DAILY POST recalls that the Defence Headquarters last week announced the emergence of Lakurawa as a new terror group operating in Sokoto and Kebbi States.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, said the terror group is worsening insecurity in the North-West region, stressing that the Nigerian military was already containing them.
Speaking, however, on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday, Ejiofor maintained that the group has been in existence before now.
The former DSS director, who noted that members of the terror group are not Nigerians, traced their origin to Niger Republic and Mali respectively, giving a brief history of the origin of the insurgents.
“I was taken aback when I heard that Lakurawa was a new terrorist group. The…
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