{"id":143575,"date":"2024-12-23T21:33:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/no-presence-of-lakurawa-militants-in-northwest-minister-2"},"modified":"2024-12-23T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:37:07","slug":"no-presence-of-lakurawa-militants-in-northwest-minister-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-presence-of-lakurawa-militants-in-northwest-minister-2","title":{"rendered":"No presence of Lakurawa militants in northwest \u2013 Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of State for Defense, Hon. Bello Mohammed Matawalle, has declared that there is no presence of Lakurawa militants in the Northwest zone.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing newsmen at his Gusau residence on Sunday, the former Governor of Zamfara State said that military troops have neutralized terrorist gangs, destroyed their camps, and recovered arms and ammunition from them.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, he said that these criminals are not Nigerians but disgruntled elements who came to Nigeria from Burkina Faso and Mali to cause havoc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have finished with them in the Northwest zone. Anybody talking about Lakurawa militants is doing so to tarnish the image of the Federal Government and security agencies,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing, the minister stressed that people are spreading rumors to instill fear in citizens and criticized journalists, especially social media operators, for believing such claims without verifying the information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military troops are killing the bandits\u2019 kingpins and their foot soldiers on a daily basis. But the social media operators are not reporting this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware that locals are giving journalists wrong information about the bandits\u2019 activities in the state to discredit the present administration led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we will not succumb to their threats. The Tinubu administration is very much ready to wipe out all the bandits in the Northwest zone before the end of 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity of lives and property of the citizens is the main thrust of Tinubu\u2019s administration, and we adhere to that policy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The minister urged Nigerians to disregard the false information being spread by those he described as enemies of peace and progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe battle against banditry is still on, and we are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. There is no going back on the arrangement to neutralize all the bandits by 2025,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Minister of State for Defense, Hon. 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Addressing newsmen at his Gusau residence on Sunday, the former Governor of Zamfara State said that military troops have neutralized terrorist gangs, destroyed their camps, and recovered arms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":143574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[15309,2044,254],"class_list":["post-143575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-lakurawa","tag-matawalle","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No presence of Lakurawa militants in northwest \u2013 Minister - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister of State for Defense, Hon. 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