Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu says what his principal has done to bandits is worse than declaring them terrorists.

Mr Shehu, revealing what has been done to the gunmen that is worst than declaring them terrorists, said the President Muhammadu Buhari ordered that any one seen bearing arms should be shot on sight.

He said progress has been recorded since the order was issued in March and reiterated in May and June.

Despite the order, banditry continues to thrive mostly in the Northern part of the country. Bandits occasionally abduct school children and demand for ransom which is usually paid before captors are set free.

The latest of such reoccurring developments, took place on Friday evening when the criminals released another batch of students abducted in Kaduna after ransom payment.

“What the Buhari administration has done to the arms-wielding bandits is worse than being declared as terrorists,” the president’s mouthpiece said in an interview with BBC Pidgin on Saturday. “Do you know that there is a subsisting order by the President that any arms-wielding, AK-47 bandits should be shot on sight.

“I am saying yes, IPOB has been proscribed by law of the land, there is no shoot-on-sight order on IPOB. There is nothing to suggest that these bandits are treated preferentially.

“The Nigerian Air Force is busy bombing locations, the military is there on the ground, exchanging fire for fire, taking them out in hundreds, that is certainly not treating them (bandits) lightly.

“Before President Muhammadu Buhari [assumed office] many Nigerians could not worship on Fridays, mosques were being bombed, on Sundays churches were being bombed, motor parks and public gatherings,” he added.

Source: https://todaypoliticsng.com/buharis-shoot-at-sight-order-on-bandits-worse-than-declaring-them-terrorists-garba-shehu/

lol ok

Really?

Ok

This man is not saying what others have not said: Obasanjo, Danjuma, Commodore Kunle, Oyedepo, Ondo Gov, Soyinka, Emir in Taraba, myself, etc etc.

How is it possible that members from a single ethnic group are terrorising, kidnapping, raping, killing people all over the country every day(Kaduna, Plateau, Zamfara, Katsina, Benue, Taraba, Niger, Kebbi, Enugu, Oyo, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Ebonyi etc etc. Defenceless prople esp from the villages and hinterland are been killed everyday and their lands taken at will, with indigenous people becoming IDPs in their own lands and the Govt is doing nothing about it? How come this Govt declared IPOB as terroists when they were not violent yet o(not that i support them in any way) and almost declared the still non violent Igboho movememt as terroists(as well as hurting them down) but has still not declared these Fulani killer herdsmen and bandits as terroists? How is that possible?? How come this Govt that shut down the borders in a bizzare way against goods with high eceonomic consequences for people has not thought it wise to suspend their so called ECOWAS protocol so as to stop movement of foreign Fulani herdsmen which from the Govt and President own words are a source of the killers and bandits destroying this country at presernt? How come this Govt have not asked everybody currently in our forest reserves to leave there for the time been and level the place if they dont as the Forest reserve is the place that these bandits live in and commit their heinous crimes from? How come a Govt that ferociously killed hundreds of Shiites and imprisoned their leader cos they block roads unable to take any extraordinary steps to stop these people killing and pillaging all over the country even if we are already at war? How come the only time this Govt respond forcefully about this issue is when some persons take moves to protect themselves against these killers as was the Presidency reactions against Ondo Gov, Benue Gov, southern Govs resolution, ESN etc. How come for the 1st time in this nations history virtually all of the security and Law enforcement agencies are been headed by Fulani as well as other northern Muslims(not that i have any thing against the ordinary people of these groups as they are also victims of a few fanatics amongst them):: the Presidency, Army, Navy, DSS, DMI, NSA, Minister of Defence, Chief of Staff, NIA, Police, Senate, Immigration, Customs, NPA, and the Judiciary etc.

Any body who thinks that this Govt does not have a hand in all of these shenanigans going on all over the country is a GOAT. And cannot be helped

These fools think Nigerians are dumb, you proscribed IPOd as a terrorist group, but call your brothers who are the real terror bandits.

Terrorists don't declare their fellow terrorists.

Infact Terrorism by terrorists is seeing as evangelism,and their reward is 72 virgins . Both he that aids terrorists,and he that carries out terrorists act are rewarded with 72 virgins in allujana firdaul according to prophet Mumuahmed (SAW)

How many dem done kill?
I just feel sorry for other armless tribes in nigeria.

Nigeria

But they shot at the military helicopter, searching for the General kidnapped at NDA... yet no shots where fired back at them ...

It is officially finished....

Uber11:
Nigeria

Zoo instead

Garuba definitely thinks that all Nigerians are îmbeciles, a description that fits only APC supporters perfectly

Actually don’t blame him,he knows his Royal zombies will believe any kind of lies he speaks

This government is run by stark illiterates. Like extremely slow lot.

You proscribed IPOB as a terrorist group but called the 4th globally acknowledged terrorists-as bandits.
Thunder fire you idiot.

deantimes:


Source: https://todaypoliticsng.com/buharis-shoot-at-sight-order-on-bandits-worse-than-declaring-them-terrorists-garba-shehu/

Lies. Declare them terrorist so the whole world with join to fight them.

And how many Bandits have they shot on sight ?