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- A panic group, Mahmuda, successful Kaiama and Baruten section authorities areas of Kwara state, person unleashed mayhem
- The reports of the group's activities caused anxiousness successful the authorities against the backdrop of information challenges successful galore parts of Nigeria
- On Monday, April 21, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq powerfully warned convulsive non-state actors to permission the Kainji National Park immediately
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Kaiama, Kwara state - Residents of Kaiama and Baruten section authorities areas (LGAs) successful Kwara authorities person accused information agencies of negligence and cover-up arsenic they proceed to endure from the activities of a the equipped panic radical known arsenic the Mahmuda'.
Contrary to a caller connection issued by the Kwara authorities constabulary bid dismissing reports of panic activities successful the area, Legit.ng has learned that the radical has been terrorising distant communities successful Kwara state for years.
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Adamu Yahuza, a nonmigratory of Kemanji, 1 of the affected communities, who spoke to Legit.ng described the radical arsenic deadly and highly-organised.
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Yahuza said:
"The person of the panic radical is Mahmuda; hence radical telephone them the Mahmuda panic group. They person been terrorising america since 2020, kidnapping; killing. They are precise brutal, similar the Boko Harams. They assertion to beryllium Islamic preachers. But they are deadly."Almost each the communities successful Kaiama are affected. But my community, Kemanji, is the astir affected. Kemanji, Naanu, Duruma, Nuku and galore others."Furthermore, Yahuza recounted a disturbing incidental involving the abduction and sidesplitting of a colony head.
He said
"They kidnapped a full colony caput and killed him. They came to his palace and took him."Yahuza recalled different large onslaught during Ramadan that reportedly near much than 20 radical dormant successful Nuku.
He said:
"They bombed a village, sidesplitting much than 20. The sanction of the colony is Nuku. This was during Ramadan. I can't callback the day exactly. We missed tahajjud prayers for days owed to their threats."Another resident, Abdullahi, did not clasp backmost successful criticising some the constabulary and elected officials for what helium described arsenic deliberate silence.
He said:
"The constabulary are not lone lying, they are openly displaying their incompetence and unprofessionalism. This makes maine deliberation the authorities has a manus successful the debacle."We person a legislator successful Kaiama. The legislator representing Kwara North is from Kaiama. But nary of them said a happening astir the full saga. Nothing I cognize of."They are playing authorities with our lives. It's what they are champion at."Another source, identified simply arsenic Abu Aisha, gave further details connected the group’s stronghold and however their activities intensified aft a subject involution during Ramadan.
Abu Aisha told Legit.ng:
"These radical person been wrong the wood for years. In fact, astir of them ever came retired for patrol and randomly searched passersby. They stayed wrong that heavy forest. The wood is betwixt Kebbi, Niger, and Kwara states. The Benin Republic besides has territory wrong this forest."These equipped terrorists turned hostile this Ramadan erstwhile the Nigerian Army attacked them. After the attack, the Nigerian Army near and it is present the communities suffering. The service has not gone backmost to combat them. These radical attacked 2 days ago."Kwara constabulary refute study of panic radical 'Mahmuda'
Despite these troubling accounts, the Kwara authorities constabulary bid claimed that determination is nary grounds to enactment claims of insurgent activities successful the area.
Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, the command’s spokesperson, successful her caller connection dismissed the reports and insisted the information concern remains nether control.
Ejire-Adeyemi said:
"The Kwara authorities constabulary bid categorically refutes the caller work alleging the emergence of a panic radical named Mahmuda wrong Kaiama and Baruten section authorities areas of Kwara state."Our broad and continuous menace assessments, quality surveillance, and tactical reconnaissance operations successful these areas person yielded nary grounds of insurgent activity, coordinated violent formations, oregon wide casualty incidents arsenic described."The bid besides denied that 15 vigilante operatives and villagers were killed successful immoderate attack, describing the claims arsenic baseless.
The constabulary said:
"The assertion of 15 vigilantes being killed is wholly mendacious and devoid of immoderate factual basis. No interior information breach has been reported oregon observed successful the aforementioned communities."While we recognise the volatile quality of cross-border movements astir the Kainji Lake National Park, the Kwara authorities constabulary bid has maintained effectual situational power crossed each borderline communities."
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Mahmuda: Kwara politician issues stern warning
Meanwhiile, connected Monday, April 21, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq powerfully warned convulsive non-state actors to permission the Kainji National Park immediately.
Accompanied by apical information commanders including the General Officer Commanding 2 Division of the Nigerian Army Major General Obinna Onubogu, the Kwara politician spoke astatine the palace of the Emir of Kaiama, Alhaji Mu'azu Shehu Omar. He besides commiserated with the Emir implicit the attacks connected members of vigilantes successful Kemanji country arsenic the criminals fly the caller subject operations successful the Park.
Governor AbdulRazaq was received by the Emir and different assemblage leaders.
Anxiety arsenic Kwara govt demolishes shops
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that hostility heightened successful parts of Ilorin, the Kwara capital, arsenic traders astatine Oja-Oba Market and different surrounding areas cried retired implicit the purproted hardship allegedly caused by the authorities government’s enforcement of anti-street trading regulations.
A Legit.ng analogous who visited the fashionable Oja-Oba marketplace observed the beingness of heavy equipped information operatives deployed nether the state-backed “Operation Harmony.”
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