The latest armed group in Nigeria announced a terrorist organization

The Nigerian authorities have officially announced that the armed Lakorawa group – which was flogging for people because of their listening to music – a terrorist organization and its ban throughout the country.

La Corua is a new armed group carrying out attacks targeting local communities in northwestern Nigeria and crossing the border with Niger.

Nigerian officials say La Corua is affiliated with jihadist factions in Mali and Niger, and that its fighters have settled for years in societies along the border between Nigeria and Niger, married local women and recruited youth.

This increases the security concerns in Nigeria, as it is already fighting many armed groups, from Islamic militants Boko Haram to kidnapping gangs.

The Nigerian government presented a document to the Supreme Court in the capital, Abuja, on Thursday, including the details of the group's activities.

She added that La Corua is involved in terrorist acts, including theft of livestock and kidnapping to obtain ransom, hold hostages and launch attacks on senior government officials.

The group was also accused of spreading harmful ideology within local communities and encouraging the local population to ignore the authorities, “which led to injuries and losses in lives and property of innocent citizens in Nigeria.”

The group appeared a few years ago in some villages in the states of Sokuto and Kiby, and people informed the authorities of its existence, but no action was taken.

Initially, members of Lakorawa promised to address the work of thieves and help protect the locals from livestock thieves.

The man said: “But things escalated when they started asking to examine the phones of people and flogged with music before deleting them,” the man said.

In the papers of the court, the Prosecutor and the Nigerian Minister of Justice Latif, Kheghibi, said that the activities of the group pose a serious threat to national security.

Last year, Military Military spokesman, General Edward Buba, said that the appearance of La Coruaoa is directly related to political instability in the neighboring Mali and Niger.

The army seized power in both countries, partly due to the pressure of the Islamic rebellion.

In a quick decision, Judge James Umotosho announced that the group is a “terrorist organization” and expanded the ban to include similar groups throughout Nigeria, with a special focus on the northwestern and northern northern regions.

This step would give the Nigerian government wide powers to take strong measures against the group.

The security services are now widespread delegations to disrupt and dismantle the group's operations, including arrests, prosecution, freezing assets and increased monitoring.

It can also lead to the general stigma and isolation of individuals associated with the designated group.

And throughout the country, especially in northern Nigeria, people fear another scenario similar to what happened when Boko Haram appeared in the late first decade of the twenty -first century.

The word Boko Haram means “Western Education is forbidden”, and it has repeatedly targeted secular schools as part of their attempts to consolidate their copy of Islamic rule in the region.

The group gained a bad reputation at the international level when it kidnapped more than 200 students from the northeastern town of Shaibuk in 2014.