Borno Governor Zulum Orders Crackdown On Notorious Marlian Group

• Zulum, who was deeply concerned about the escalating violence, expressed the government’s determination to restore peace and ensure the safety of all residents
• Governor Zulum conducts emergency security meeting, briefs journalists

In several areas of Maiduguri and Jere within the city, citizens are reportedly being terrorised by an infamous Marlian group, according to Governor Babagana Zulum, who has ordered security personnel to crack down on them.

The Marlian group, which has earned notoriety for engaging in a wide range of criminal activities like extortion, robbery, drug and substance misuse, and acts of terrorism, including the death of security personnel, is made up primarily of young people who use drugs.

On Wednesday in Maiduguri, Governor Zulum addressed journalists after holding an emergency security meeting at the Government House.

“I have summoned this emergency security council meeting to address the emerging security threat that is bedevilling the Maiduguri metropolis and parts of Jere Local Government, with a view to coming up with additional implementable strategies to guarantee the needed peace and security,” Zulum said.

“Intelligence reports before my office from different sources have indicated increasing activities of youth gangsterism operating in some parts of the state capital and Jere Local Government. This syndicate specialised not only in phone snatching in broad daylight, robbery and possession of locally made weapons, but has now graduated into the killing of innocent lives, including security operatives,” the governor declared.

Zulum, who was deeply concerned about the escalating violence, expressed the government’s determination to restore peace and ensure the safety of all residents.

“I want to assure the general public that the government of Borno State, under my leadership, will not allow such a matter to deteriorate. I have received assurances from the security operatives of their commitment to tame such dastardly acts, and our administration is ever committed to dealing with such matters within the shortest possible time,” Zulum said.