BY QUADRI SALIU
Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State has Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency declare the bandits in Nigeria a terrorist organisation.
According to El-Rufai, the declaration would enable the Nigerian military to attack and kill “these bandits without any major consequences in the international law.”
He spoke shortly after receiving the third quarter security report from the Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna on Wednesday.
The Governor boasted that the recruitment of 1,000 youths each across the 774 local government areas of the country would deal a deadly blow to bandits and other criminal elements in the land.
He disclosed that the Kaduna state government had since 2017 written to the federal government on that, pointing out that “bandits don’t deserve mercy and they should not be allowed to live.”
His words: “We in the Kaduna State government had always urged for the declaration of bandits as insurgents and terrorists. We have written letters to the federal government since 2017 asking for this declaration because it is this declaration that will allow the Nigerian military to attack and kill these bandits without any major consequences in international law.
“So, we support the resolution by the National Assembly and we are going to follow up with a letter of support for the federal government to declare these bandits and insurgents as terrorists, so that, there will be fair game for our military”.
