By GAMBO ARABART, Lafia

The Forum of Ethnic Youth Presidents in Nasarawa State has called on the Federal Government to immediately proscribe the Nomad Vigilante group inaugurated recently in the state by the President of Myetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhaji Bello Bodejo.

The group also demanded that Bodejo should be put behind bars and thoroughly investigated. It alleged that in Nasarawa alone, over 80 percent of kidnappers and armed robbers in the correctional centres in the state are Fulanis, some of whom are not even of Nigerian origin.

Addressing journalists at a press conference held on Wednesday in Lafia, the state capital, Chairman of the Forum, Comrade Silas Louder Yieleni, said that the inauguration of Nomad Vigilante group was illegal going by the composition of the group, alleging that some of them are not even Nigerians.

He said that the youth leaders cannot therefore “sit down and watch Alhaji Bello Badejo inaugurating migrants from non-existing communities of Nasarawa State in formalizing his acts that may lead to terrorism and banditry.”

Yieleni noted that if the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, “is behind bars for allegedly promoting terrorism, then Bello Bodejo deserves the same treatment with his promoters.”

According to Yieleni, “There are several communities cut across the three senatorial districts of Nasarawa State that have been wiped off from the map of the state as the inhabitants have been killed in crises while survivors are displaced, and their houses and historical relics flattened.”

“Aside from open violent attacks on communities, there have been incidences of outright destruction of crops in farms. There is also the menace of night grazing on people’s crops in order to avoid arrest or identification. These are some of the challenges farmers are experiencing in Nasarawa State at the moment,” he said.

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