Jonathan orders immediate deployment of troops in Nasarawa President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan The Federal Government has ordered immediate deployment of troops in troubled Nasarawa state. The Director, Army Public Relations Department, Brigadier General Ibrahim Attahiru, told journalists in Abuja that the troops, will join the police to stem the tide of violence in the state. The North-central state descended into chaos on Friday following clashes between two ethnic groups. An unknown number of people have died while several thousand others were displaced after their houses were razed in the violence now in its sixth day.