By Kayode Oyero

A former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has urged the Federal Government to explore non-kinetic approach in dealing with the menacing phenomenon of banditry in Nigeria.

Shittu, an ex-minister in the cabinet of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday.

“If I am in position, it is not too late to use non-kinetic neasures in negotiating with bandits, giving them a promising future. Let us retain them. Many of them are very intelligent, many of them are able-bodied,” Shittu said, adding that the military spending on equipment far outweighed the non-kinetic approach.


The ex-minister said the millions of out-of-school children in Northen Nigeria is a “production factory for banditry” in the country.

Like Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Shittu opined that the government should negotiate with bandits “for the purpose of resettling, rehabilitating and retraining them”.

"Reformed Bandits Can Contribute To Nation-Building’
However, the ex-minister said it is important that the government solve the menacing situation “to ensure we have peace, to ensure that these people lay down their arms and ammunition and add value to their own lives and for them to also contribute to nation-building”.

He said the society had abandoned the bandits over the years, arguing that the marauders are citizens of Nigeria and they should be given a chance through training and deradicalisation.

“The more skills you are able to give to the largest number of them, the less the propensity for them to go back (to crime) if they are assured that a promising future awaits them after going through the deradicalisation processes and skills’ training.

"At the end of the day, the amount of money we are spending on the Armed Forces to confrontn these people, it looks like their number is endless because in the bush we have have thousands of groups, particularly in the North-West and North-East.

“So, instead of wasting too much money on acquiring arms and ammunition, let us rearrange, let us find a way, after every war, there must still be coming to the round table, negotiate,” Shittu said.

Shittu also said the creation of state police would empower the governors the more and silence the local governments.

https://www.channelstv.com/2024/03/26/its-not-late-to-negotiate-with-bandits-give-them-promising-future-shittu/

So others can join banditry with the hopes of getting a promising future.

Which promising future have these bastards provided for goood citizens

We really deserve the leaders. Shebi na we vote.

Other countries are shenking these old dogs. We dey accept them here.


Divide this good for nothing country NOW INTO LIKE 16 NEW NATIONS. NONSENSE

Continue negotiating with every criminal elements and many more others will come out.

A terrorist should be treated like a terrorist, they should be killed on sight and if they surrender and you’ve extracted information from them, kill them still. No room for pity or sending them to jail. Those guys have zero mercy and regards for human lives, we shouldn’t treat them with dignity.

They believe they have rewards of some virgins in paradise, why not just hasten their ascension to heaven so they can win their prize.

All these Islamists think Nigerians are daft.
We know your games.

Which type of animal talk is this ?

Idiots.

Promising future na to send them to hell

Oponu ni Mr shittu Yi Sha,what's the difference between a bandit and an armed robber?this people like gumi are living in a bubble...anyone in the country can be a bandit . Just carry gun and kidnap someone and demand Ransom..how many will you negotiate with?your money will finish when you start negotiating..unlike Niger Delta militants ..not everyone or anyone can claim to be a Niger Delta militants. It's totally different..don't compare apple to orange..a Yoruba man or Hausa nor even an Igbo man cannot claim to be a militant..but trust me once you start paying bandit money ..Yorubas and Igbos will dislodge them in that game hands down .

Simply put give up the country to islamic control and agenda.
What the midwest and the south east regions still doing in the Nigerian union i don't understand .

Something in madness only mad people knows.

Fareke:
By Kayode Oyero

A former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has urged the Federal Government to explore non-kinetic approach in dealing with the menacing phenomenon of banditry in Nigeria.

Shittu, an ex-minister in the cabinet of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday.

“If I am in position, it is not too late to use non-kinetic neasures in negotiating with bandits, giving them a promising future. Let us retain them. Many of them are very intelligent, many of them are able-bodied,” Shittu said, adding that the military spending on equipment far outweighed the non-kinetic approach.


The ex-minister said the millions of out-of-school children in Northen Nigeria is a “production factory for banditry” in the country.

Like Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Shittu opined that the government should negotiate with bandits “for the purpose of resettling, rehabilitating and retraining them”.

"Reformed Bandits Can Contribute To Nation-Building’
However, the ex-minister said it is important that the government solve the menacing situation “to ensure we have peace, to ensure that these people lay down their arms and ammunition and add value to their own lives and for them to also contribute to nation-building”.

He said the society had abandoned the bandits over the years, arguing that the marauders are citizens of Nigeria and they should be given a chance through training and deradicalisation.

“The more skills you are able to give to the largest number of them, the less the propensity for them to go back (to crime) if they are assured that a promising future awaits them after going through the deradicalisation processes and skills’ training.

"At the end of the day, the amount of money we are spending on the Armed Forces to confrontn these people, it looks like their number is endless because in the bush we have have thousands of groups, particularly in the North-West and North-East.

“So, instead of wasting too much money on acquiring arms and ammunition, let us rearrange, let us find a way, after every war, there must still be coming to the round table, negotiate,” Shittu said.

Shittu also said the creation of state police would empower the governors the more and silence the local governments.

https://www.channelstv.com/2024/03/26/its-not-late-to-negotiate-with-bandits-give-them-promising-future-shittu/

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But those asking for their own country in the eastern part of Nigeria should be crushed to pieces?