Report that Governor Abdullahi Sule is the author of ethnic militia group, Kungiya Zaman Lafiya, has excited his response.
Recall that the President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, is under prosecution for allegedly establishing the militia group with three counts of terrorism slammed against him.
According to Punchng, citing a purported confessional statement, Badejo implicated the Nasarawa governor, accusing him of being the architect and funder of Kungiya Zaman Lafiya.
“The governor said I should meet the SSG and tell him the cost of procuring 1,000 uniforms and kits. Chiroma advised me to be careful with the governor because what he was doing was illegal. That is number one; the governor can’t just carry one tribe of Fulani as vigilantes, and secondly, he can’t carry one as security. He did not build schools for them, just this security vigilante group,” the embattled Fulani socio-cultural association leader is said to have written in the aforementioned statement by the publication.
The latter further reported that Governor Sule denied the charge.
Quoting his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Peter Ahemba, it wrote, “The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has no hand in the establishment of the Nomad Vigilante Group of Nigeria.
“The governor cannot authorise such an establishment when it has not been backed by the laws of the land.
“Governor Sule, being a man who believes in the rule of law, could not have just authorised or encouraged anyone to operate an illegal vigilante group.
“I am urging members of the public to disregard such misinformation and rumour because there is no truth in it. So, nobody or group of persons should drag him into a matter that he knows nothing about.”
