Proscribed Nomad Vigilante Group Complies With Directive, Returns Uniforms, Other Items To Police
By; SAMSON YAKI, Lafia
Nomad Vigilante Group of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has returned two hundred and sixty-seven (267) pairs of uniforms, one hundred and two (102) pieces of black belts and one hundred and eighty-nine (189) pieces of infantry lanyards to the Nasarawa State Police Command.
This was in compliance with the recent executive order issued by Governor Abdullahi Sule on the proscription of ethnic vigilante groups and other similar organisations in the state.
The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel made this known in a statement yesterday.
Nansel added that five hundred and sixty-four (564) black berets, three hundred and thirty-nine (339) pieces of black/ ten (10) white lanyards and two (2) identification cards were also returned to the Police by the proscribed group.
“The Commissioner of Police hereby calls on those who are yet to comply with the Executive Order to do so on or before the expiration of the two-week ultimatum as the Command shall ensure that the Ban is enforced to the latter,” the statement reads further.
Alhaji Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, the leader of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore had alleged that Governor Sule disbursed ₦15 million for the procurement of uniforms for members of the group.
Bodejo who made this known in a confessional statement from the custody of the country’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), obtained by a national daily, also alleged that additional ₦15 million was released by the State Government for mobilization and renting of hall for the launching of the group held in January, but only half of the money was given to him.
He was arrested on 24th of January this year in Karu LGA of the State and arraigned recently in a Federal High Court, Abuja on 3-count charge bothering on terrorism for allegedly establishing an unlawful ethnic militia group, Kungiya Zaman Lafiya.
This may not dance down well in the spirit of the indigenes of the state as most are of the believe that the governor is just trying to display a show of what Hausa adage says, “Taburma Kunya ana Nede ta da hauka”-The mat of shame is usually folded with aggression or madness; believing that the governor had a hand and an ulterior motive in establishing the Nomad Vigilante group.
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