The Senate had made the demand the previous day.

Chairman of the House Committee on Defence, Babajimi Benson, who moved a motion of urgent public importance, urged the chamber to back the Senate.

The motion was titled, ‘Declaration of Bandits and their Sponsors as Terrorists.’

Moving the motion, Benson said, “The Senate, on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, adopted a motion asking President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits ravaging the northern part of the country terrorists and wage a total war on them. They also asked that the president declare all known leaders of bandits wanted and arrest them wherever they were found for speedy prosecution. Such declaration to be done through a Proscription Order can be done pursuant to Section 2 of the Terrorism Prevention Act, 2011 (As Amended).

There was no motion or debate in the Nigerian Legislatures to declare IPOB a terrorist organisation, yet Buhari did the unthinkable.

But here we have a motion and a resolution to declare Bandits a terrorist organisation but Buhari and his Attorney General are defending them and employing them as officers of Nigerian Custom Service.

God will judge.