Following the emergency security meeting convened by Lead Representative Abdullahi Sule on Monday, the Nasarawa State government has proscribed all ethnic vigilante groups operating in the state.
An assertion gotten gotten from news sources on Tuesday, said the state government has similarly directed ethnic vigilante groups affected by the order, to surrender their uniforms and weapons to the state commissioner of police in two weeks or less.
Citing the powers vested in him via Section 97A of the Penal Code, as well as other pertinent laws, Lead Representative Sule, said he acted on the counsel of the state security council, and has prohibited the Fulani ethnic vigilante group otherwise known as the Kungiyar Zaman Lafiya, Bassa vigilante group, as well as the Eggon vigilante group.
Through Executive Order No. 1 of 2024, inked by the Lead Representative and issued, other associations, movements, organizations or societies affiliated with the group operating under the pretense of ethnic vigilante, have pretense been restricted.
The statement read, “Similar Organisations includes 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”.
The State Government then ordered members of the Kungiwar Zaman Lafiya nomad Vigilante, Bassa Vigilante, Eggon Vigilante and other similar organizations, surrender all weapons or arms in their possession, along with uniforms to the commissioner of police Nasarawa State, within two weeks from the date of issuance of the order.
