Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has accused the Federal Government of giving a “soft landing” to bandits.
Speaking on Channels Television’s “Sunday Politics,” he alleged that the government was empowering bandits by providing them with a “monthly allowance” and “food to them in the name of non-kinetic.”
He referred to the approach as a “kiss-the-bandits policy.”
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El-Rufai was quoted saying, “What I will not do is to pay bandits, give them a monthly allowance, or send food to them in the name of non-kinetic. It’s nonsense; we’re empowering bandits.”
He said the policy was a national one, adding, “It’s not the government of Kaduna State; it’s a national policy driven by the Office of the National Security Adviser, and Kaduna is part of it. Kiss the bandits; that’s the new policy.”
He argued that the lingering insecurity is a result of a policy that rehabilitates criminals instead of punishing them. El-Rufai stated his belief that “the only repentant bandit is a dead one.”
He said, “Let’s kill them all. Let’s bomb them until they are reduced to nothing, and then the five per cent that still want to be rehabilitated can be rehabilitated.”
He also added that those who live in the affected states “know what is happening” despite any attempts at “propaganda.”
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