Nigeria’s latest armed group has been announced as a terrorist organization

The Nigerian authorities have officially announced that the Lakrava armed organization (the organization whipped the people listening to music) as a terrorist organization and banned nationwide.

Lakurawa is a new armed organization that launched an attack on the local community on the northwestern Nigeria and the Niger border.

Nigeria officials said that Lakarava is associated with the jihadic factions in Maria and Niger. Its militants have settled in communities along the border between Nigeria and Niger to marry local women and recruit young people.

This has increased the security concerns of Nigeria, because the country is already fighting with multiple armed organizations, from Islamic Audit Poko Holy Land to the abduction gang.

The Nigerian government submitted a document to the capital Abuja High Court on Thursday to introduce the organization’s activities in detail.

The report said that Lakrava participated in terrorist acts, including stealing cattle, abduction and extortion, hijacking hostages, and attacking senior government officials.

The organization was also accused of spreading harmful ideology in the local community and encouraged local people to ignore the authorities, “leading to injuries, life and property losses in Nigerian innocent citizens.”

The organization appeared in some villages in Soko and Kaibi several years ago. People notified the authorities to exist, but did not take any action.

At first, members of Lakurawa promised to crack down on bandit behaviors and help protect local people from being infringed from stealing cattle thieves.

“But when they started to check people’s mobile phones and whipped those music phones with music before deleting their mobile phones, things were upgraded,” the man said.

Nigerian Prosecutor and Minister of Justice Ratf Fagbemy said in court documents that the organization’s activities have a serious threat to national security.

Last year, Major General Edward Edbuba said that the appearance of Lakarava was directly related to the political instability of neighbors Maria and Niger.

The military seized the regime in these two countries, partly due to the pressure of Islamic rebellion.

Judge James Omotosho quickly made a decision to declare that the organization was “terrorist organization and expanded the ban to similar organizations throughout Nigeria, especially Northwest and the central and central regions.”

The move will give the Nigerian government’s extensive power to the organization with strong action.

Security agencies now have extensive tasks to disturb and disintegrate the organization’s actions, including arrest, prosecution, frozen assets, and strengthen surveillance.

It may also cause individuals related to designated groups to be shame and isolated by the public.

In all parts of the country, especially in northern Nigeria, people are worried that another situation similar to the occurrence of the Holy Land in the late 2000.

The Boko Holy Land means “prohibiting Western education”, which has repeatedly aimed at secular schools as part of the Islamic rule version in the region.

In 2014, the gang abducted more than 200 female students in Chibake, northeast, and was notorious internationally.