The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has said that the term “repentant bandits” is a misnomer and does not exist.

This is as he said that the goal of the Kaduna State Government is to kill bandits wherever they are found.

The governor disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Tuesday shortly after meeting with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

El-Rufai, who was in the Villa to brief the President on Sunday’s attack on Kauran Fawa, Marke and Ruhiya of Idasu Ward of Giwa Local Government Area, Kaduna State, which left at least 40 people dead, was accompanied by the State’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan.

He said, “There is nothing like repentant terrorists. The only repentant bandit is the one that is dead. Our intention in the state is to kill them (terrorists), let them go and see God.

“If you want to call them terrorists, you can call them terrorists. But we don’t want them to be confused with the terrorists that we know: the Boko Haram and IPOB which have been declared terrorists.

“We don’t call them terrorists, we call them IPOB. Okay, so this is it. The nomenclature doesn’t matter. What matters is they is now a fair game for the armed forces.

"What I’m saying is, we call them bandits to differentiate them from the rest but they are terrorists. You can choose any name you want to give them but as a government, I have to call them by a name that everyone understands. They have been declared terrorists, but they have to have a name that everyone can understand and not confuse them with Boko Haram.”

He added that the locations of the bandits is not a mystery but that the military is only toeing the line of caution because of potential collateral damage an all-out raid could pose to innocent civilians.

According to him, terrorists are of three types; Boko Haram insurgents, bandits, and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

He said the recent declaration of bandits as terrorists has given the military more impetus to engage them in real warfare.

While calling on security agencies to be more aggressive towards terrorists, the former FCT minister also sought the intervention of the president for the deployment of more security personnel to the troubled region.

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Lol

IPOB are Freedom fighters, not terrorist according to international law..

Imagine Boko Haram and bandits terrorist suing
US government on US soil..

And imagine them pretesting at UN HQ...

Last UN meeting, the Jihadist government was busy begging the media not to cover IPOB protest at UN HQ, would IPOB protest at UN HQ If they are terrorist..

Equaling Bandits and Boko Haram terrorist to IPOB a renown freedom fighters is absurd. .

E be like First Lady don give this one mpurun mmiri

She-riously ??

El-Rufai is the chief terrorist behind the genocide in Southern Kaduna. There's nothing you terrorist fulanis can do to justify the criminal tag you put on us. IPOB is a secessionist group agitating for the creation of Biafra because we believe that the shithole known as Nigeria has no single good plan for our people. I'm proudly IPOB fighting for the freedom of my people just like MNK. We will defend our land against fulani terrorists and the world knows about it.
Why are Nigerians silent on the genocide against Tivs in Nasarawa, Taraba and Benue? We can understand the attacks towards us defending Biafra but what about the Tivs? Why the conspiracy of silence? Why?
Death to Nigeria.
God Bless IPOB
God Bless Biafra.

HELL RUFAI IS A MAD MAN

HELL RUFAI SHOULD START BY TELLING US THE MEANING OF BANDITS.

IF YOU CAN LABEL A WHOLE INDIGENOUS TRIBE TERRORIST THEN BANDITS SHOULD EQUALLY BE CALLED FULANI TERRORISTS ORGANIZATION (FTO)


ITS COMMON SENSICAL

Too much talk as usual.

Forget Boko haram and bandits the main thing on his mind is IPOB. One million can die in the north no problem but at the mention of IPOB and Biafra thunder begins to strike in the north

Are all northerners not boko haram with their yoba muslim brothers.

Well said

Tranquillity360:
Are all northerners not boko haram with their yoba muslim brothers.

you think everyone is senseless myopic and irresponsible like IPOB that do anything for money