The Advocate By Onikepo Braithwaite [email protected] The Lakurawas Last week, the issue of yet another violent so-called Islamic Terrorist group, possibly Tuaregs (Berber Nomadic Herders) from neighbouring Niger and Mali, “Lakurawa”, that has infiltrated North West Nigeria, particularly Sokoto and Kebbi State, was a topic of conversation.
Apparently, the Lakurawas have been in those areas since 2016/2017. I call it a ‘so-called Islamic group’, because there is really nothing Islamic about the activities of groups like Boko Haram and this group. They steal, they kill, maim and partake in activities that are strictly prohibited by the Holy Quran.
See Quran 4:29 on stealing. Similarly, the Quran prohibits killing a soul, unless for another soul (legal retribution for murder) or for corruption done in the land – Quran 5:32. Many of these so-called Islamic terrorist groups use the ‘corruption done in the land’ as the excuse for the mayhem they cause, claiming they are fighting the government because of their corrupt ways, when the fact of the matter is that they are cold blooded killers and thieves who do not fear God or practice Islam, but go about killing and maiming innocent citizens who are struggling to eke out a daily living, and have absolutely nothing to do with governance, let alone corruption.
The murders these groups commit, and the hurt they cause, cannot be justified by any means whatsoever. Even though Section 14(2)(a) of the 1999 Con.
