{"id":87217,"date":"2021-10-19T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=87217"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T13:33:31","slug":"thuggery-sponsor-zulum-reads-riot-act-to-politicians-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/thuggery-sponsor-zulum-reads-riot-act-to-politicians-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Thuggery Sponsor: Zulum Reads Riot Act To Politicians, Youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1714053714988360926\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has warned Politicians and youths in the state against allowing themselves to be used either as sponsors or perpetrators of thuggery, promising that the administration will not condone it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nZulum gave the warning\u00a0 at the Government House while addressing leaders of political youth groups associated with thuggery known as ECOMOG in Maiduguri.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued by the governor media aide, Malam Isa Gusau.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com\u00a0 reports that Zulum had at different times approved series of vocational jobs and empowerment programmes for the groups to make them have access to lawful means of livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any politician, no matter how highly placed he is, if found harbouring or sponsoring thugs, we will deal with him accordingly. This administration will not condone any act of indiscipline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Borno is the only place we have, we can\u2019t allow few of you to destroy the state. I believe you are not the only people in Borno, we have over six million people in the state. We can\u2019t allow you to continue terrorizing the population, we can\u2019t tolerate that anymore, \u2018\u2019said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that, \u201cWe will not continue to give you money, you cannot hold us to ransom. The security agencies have been directed to deal with anyone found parading himself as ECOMOG, either at the airport, graveyard, at wedding receptions or anywhere. You have been disturbing the public peace, constituting nuisance.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Kaka Shehu Lawan, said in recent days, there has been increasing cases of theft and house burgling. He warned that any person or group of persons found contributing to the insecurity within the state capital and its environs, will be dealt with.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abdu Umar, and the State Director of DSS, Munir Mamman, pledged to act in line with the governor\u2019s policy.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019It would be recalled that in July 2019, which was two months after assuming office, Governor Zulum had announced a ban on political thuggery in Maiduguri which had, in the mid 2000s, come under bloody clashes between rival thugs including killings. He launched a vocational employment scheme to support the youths. \u2018\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019In 2020 and 2021, Zulum extended his ban on political thuggery to Biu and Gwoza, both of which have had notorious prevalence of thuggery. The governor later announced a statewide ban on the menace.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, despite these measure, Zulum inferred, most of the youths prefer political thuggery as a means of livelihood.<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_6410639286191347907ymail_android_signature\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has warned Politicians and youths in the state against allowing themselves to be used either as sponsors or perpetrators of thuggery, promising that the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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