Governor Raises Alarm, Says Boko Haram Now In Nasarawa State

The Boko Haram insurgent have found their way into Nasarawa State, according Governor Abdulahi Sule.

The governor made the revelatio on Friday after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in his office at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said members of the terror group dislodged from a location along the Abuja/Nasarawa borders last year, had regrouped along the Nasarawa/Benue borders, wrecking new forms of havoc.

According to him, he came to see the President to discuss the security challenges posed to his state by the development, and pleaded with the federal government to take-over the Jitata Road which serves as an alternative route from the state to the FCT.

“Some of the Boko Haram elements active in the Nasarawa State belong to the Darussalam group that had been dislodged from Niger,” he said, adding that upon a joint security operation, a lot of them were killed while 900 were arrested.

Sule maintained that those arrested confirmed their membership of the Boko Haram insurgency group.

He added that Nasarawa had continued to have security challenges, noting that having briefed the president, he was confident that action would be taken to curtail the menace.