Lakurawa Terrorists Exploiting Porous Borders, Forest Reserves In N/West – NSA

The National Security Adviser Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has said Lakurawa terrorists were exploiting porous borderlines and ungoverned forest reserves to introduce advanced combat tactics into the North-West theatre, blurring the line between criminal enterprise and transnational insurgency.
This is just as the NSA unveiled a five point crisis response framework to curtail banditry and other criminal elements in Sokoto State.
He said, “The security challenges confronting rural Sokoto have crossed a critical operational threshold. This is because what began years ago as opportunistic cattle rustling, rural robbery, and disjointed highway extortion has hardened into organised, territorial warf...