Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai has revealed the extent of terrorists’ entrenchment in his state, saying they have managed to set up their own government structures and are exercising control over some areas of the state.
This was revealed in the governor’s leaked memo to the president which warns of the terrorists’ advanced plans to create a permanent operational base for the North-west region.
El-Rufai told President Muhammadu Buhari that terrorists were consolidating their grip on communities in Kaduna with a “parallel” government and “permanent operational base” in the North-western state near Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.
El-Rufai warned the president of the terrorists’ consolidation in a late July memo sighted by the online media outfit, Premium Times.
The terrorists belonging to Ansaru al-Musulmina fi Bilad al-Sudan, or Ansaru for short, are believed to have moved to Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State in 2012 when they broke away from Boko Haram.
According to intelligence reports and human sources consulted in further reporting for this story, the terrorists that formed Ansaru were responsible for some of the high-profile attacks claimed by Boko Haram before the split.
