Nasarawa State Government bans all ethnic vigilante groups

All ethnic vigilante groups that are active in the state have been outlawed by the Nasarawa State Government. The event happened after Governor Abdullahi Sule called a meeting on emergency security. 

The government also ordered concerned ethnic vigilante groups to turn up their uniforms and firearms to the state commissioner of police within two weeks, according to a statement released on Tuesday. 

Sule said that he outlawed the Kungiyar Zaman Lafiya, a Fulani ethnic vigilante organisation, and the Eggon vigilante group, acting on the state security council's recommendation.

The statement read, “Similar organisations include any association, movement or group of persons or society in whatever name called or form, with the aim and objectives of providing security amongst particular ethnic groups within Nasarawa State through the use of force or arms etc,” part of the Executive Order No. 1 of 2024 reads.

“Accordingly, the Kungiyar Zaman Lafiya nomad vigilante, Bassa vigilante, Eggon vigilante, and other similar organisations are henceforth proscribed, and declared unlawful societies that are inimical to good governance in the state”.

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