The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has warned that a new splinter group of Boko Haram insurgents, identified as “Wulowulo”, has infiltrated the North-Central region of the country.
Bellnews reports that Sule disclosed this on Monday during a stakeholders’ meeting with security agencies in Lafia, the state capital, where he expressed concern that the emergence of the group could worsen the already fragile security situation in the zone.
The governor said, “As you are aware, this new group of Wulowulo, which is a splinter group of Boko Haram, is beginning to surface in the North-Central zone.”
The governor further explained that another terrorist faction, the Lakurawa group, had expanded its activities into Kwara State.
“The Lakurawa group is now a big problem in Kwara. Originally, they were somewhere around Kebbi and Sokoto states, but now they have become prominent in Kwara, which is one of the states in North-Central,” Sule stated.
Sule said the meeting with security stakeholders was convened to discuss measures to prevent the infiltration of the new groups into Nasarawa.
“Some of them are beginning to spread into our state. It is very important that we take steps to ensure that does not happen to us,” he warned.
The governor also lamented the increasing cases of kidnapping in parts of Lafia and Karu Local Government Areas, stressing the need for new strategies to address the menace.
Late last year, the Lakurawa group was reported to have infiltrated parts of Sokoto and Kebbi states from Niger Republic and Mali, raising fears of expanding terrorist networks across Nigeria’s borders.