Insecurity: Sule Proscribes Fulani, Eggon, Bassa Ethnic Vigilance Groups in Nasarawa

Igbawase Ukumba in Lafia

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, yesterday, proscribed the Fulani ethnic vigilante group known as Kungiyar Zaman Lafiya, the Bassa Vigilante group and the Eggon Vigilante Group operating in the state.

Through an Executive Order No. 1 of 2024, signed by the governor and issued on Tuesday, the governor also banned any other association, movement, organisation or society affiliated with the groups operating under the guise of ethnic vigilante.

Citing the powers vested in him via Section 97A of the Penal Code, as well as other relevant laws vested on him, Sule, acting on the advice of the state security council, banned the Fulani ethnic vigilante group known as the Kungiyar Zaman Lafiya, Bassa Vigilante group, as well as the Eggon Vigilante Group.

 “Similar Organisations includes any association, movement or group of persons or society in whatever name called or formed, with the aims 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 read.

According to the Executive Order, “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 therefore directed that members of the Kungiwar Zaman Lafiya Nomad Vigilante, Bassa Vigilante, Eggon Vigilante and other similar organisations, to handover 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.”