Northern terrorists collect taxes same way southern area boys extort commuters: Lai Mohammed



Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.

AHMED OLUWASANJO



Information minister Lai Mohammed on Thursday said violent extremists collecting taxes from citizens across the northern parts of the country constitute the same security threat as street thugs extorting cash from citizens in the southern parts of the country.

The minister said bandits and terrorists operating across the northern region should not be seen as running their own enclaves outside federal jurisdictions just because they have the ability to amass financial gains through violence and intimidation.

“The issue is not about bandits collecting taxes,’’ Mr Mohammed said. “But that’s not the same as saying there is a new caliphate.”

Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.

“Do you know how many places in this country where area boys collect taxes and there is no banditry there?

“I don’t want to mention names. In many of our cities, they carve out their own territories. So what they are writing is nothing. It is not indicative that the bandits have taken over,” the minister said at a press briefing in his office on Thursday.

Whereas there are street thugs in Lagos and other southern cities, they operate largely under the shadows. But insurgents and bandit gangs in northern communities often sack security forces and introduce quasi-administrative roles to government trapped locals.

Mr Mohammed’s comments come as the regime ramps up its pushback against The Economist’s latest issue that criticised President Muhammadu Buhari. The publication noted that under Mr Buhari, Nigeria had become a crime scene of destructive magnitude on the African continent, pointing out that terrorists and armed bandits are running wild because the president is corrupt and lazy, failing to do anything but render lip service following every deadly attack.

The minister also criticised the Nigerian media for publishing Western outlets. Peoples Gazette was the first Nigerian outlet to publish a follow-on story based on The Economist’s report, which was soon followed with two additional stories, including the military’s rebuttal.

“The point is about you (Nigeria media) swallowing hook, line and sinker, a report by a foreign organisation, which you have not even interrogated yourself, that’s my problem,” the minister said.

Mr Mohammed’s new position on the credibility of Western media marked a stark breakaway from his days as opposition spokesman, especially between 2013 and 2015 when he was in charge of talking points for the then-opposition APC. Many party members repeated Western media claims that Boko Haram was controlling large swathes of the country’s territory the size of Belgium.

The minister also used several Western media reports to knock President Goodluck Jonathan. And when The Economist endorsed Mr Buhari ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Mr Mohammed held media tours on the back of the report to mock the then-ruling PDP as a failure

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Just look at rubbish

Fvck you lai

What's this fool saying

eh eh....

See wetin this man dey use du case study...


You people shuld keep justifying rubbish till the same terrorist come for u nd kidnap u nd put u inside bush for over 60days...

Then you go know the difference between Thug nd terrorist..

Wow, what a weird competition.

So bandit terrorists imposing their taxing system, then coercing residents to pay,thereby preventing them from harvesting their crops or even getting kill are just playing around? Perhaps bandits are not holding territories because they don't mount flags as he stupidly thinks.

These bastard treasonable elements are creating a govt within a government thereby defiantly violating the sovereignty of this already failed nation. Yet this fool is obessessing sane humanity with senseless tales? This Lai Mohammed is a incredibly terrible liar and A terrorist himself.He lies with so much with a nauseating confidence

It is finished...

Imagine what a Southerner is saying just to please his pay master.

Done with this shithole

They call this man minister of information

Let me tell you ehnn a typical Muslim doesn't see anything wrong in bandity

Mohamed their prophet was a bandit who went robbing caravans and stealing booty in badr

It's all part of subjugation, a subtle jihad of placing a people under a shadow government

One of his many lies

Only Lai can out lie himself

A legendary liar

Baba Lai.

Nothing can be more kolomental than this.

Lai Muhammed brain has been diminished since 2015,his children need to take him to yaba left before he enter market

Fake news.

They way bandits are defended by the government makes me believe that they may be appendages of government.

ijustdey:

Northern terrorists collect taxes same way southern area boys extort commuters: Lai Mohammed



Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.



https://gazettengr.com/northern-terrorists-collect-taxes-same-way-southern-area-boys-extort-commuters-lai-mohammed/


Lalasticlala

Dis one wey Lai dey take pass Sapele water!

Midenola:
It is finished...

Imagine what a Southerner is saying just to please his pay master.

Done with this s.hithole

He's not a southerner

Three things buhari and Lai like most and love to defend with much passion are as follows:
a. Cows
b. Herdsmen and lastly
c. Bandits

I wonder why these people are so invested in whittling the menace of banditry. It's very odd that this government have a kind of love/empathy for Biko haram, herdsmen, and bandits.

It is finish

This man no get 1kobo shame at all

Very disgusting grandpa

Must be really hard trying to window dress the grand failure of this government. Honestly, liar Mohammed dey try...

Wake me when e reach front page
Lie Mohamed children dey nairaland, I want make Dem knw say their papa no well

All bandits, kidnappers, terrorists, evil ones among the herdsmen, unknown and known gunmen, boko haram, ipob terrorist organizations will never end well in this nation
Brutal end await them all and their supporters

Imagine IPOB shot down a fighter jet, blew a train, kidnap people and students and Ohaneze ndi claims attack on a Governor. By now we must have been fighting a war in SE. President Buhari, Malami, and Miyetti Allah are full blown terrorists and terrorist sponsors. I said it with my full chest.

“The issue is not about bandits collecting taxes,’’ Mr Mohammed said. “But that’s not the same as saying there is a new caliphate.”

Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.

“Do you know how many places in this country where area boys collect taxes and there is no banditry there?

“I don’t want to mention names. In many of our cities, they carve out their own territories

Go to the East and see the nonsense those guys are doing. Lagos na no man's land so we can't tell. Calling themselves area Boys. Activities of IPOB has even made the whole thing worst now than it was. You stand on the road for too long they tax you, you go to parks they collect people's money. Broad day stealing. Their activities is worse compared to what bandits do. Those touts make life unbearable for citizens. If you're a newbie in the East, please be careful. Including Lagos State you'll find alot of them there.

we all know its one the ways the federal government is using to fight unemployment. In case you dont have any work like most zombies the federal government is recruiting people into bandits and terrorism.I told you guys the government is the bandits and the one terrorising the nation if not just look at what una professor of lie just dished out

This man is suffering from mental derailment.......abeg make dem go recall that him son wey come from kwara comot from lagos state house of assembly he should go home and teach his father what to say and what not to say in public....the boy sef would be ashamed of this crazy man....selling your soul because of paper that was made from trees in the forest. Idiat

Truthissupreme:
Let me tell you ehnn a typical Muslim doesn't see anything wrong in bandity

Mohamed their prophet was a bandit who went robbing caravans and stealing booty in badr

It's all part of subjugation, a subtle jihad of placing a people under a shadow government

I see no difference between you and Lai

Okay..quick one normal guys, all u normal guys that was hoping for a better government that voted in buhari despite warnings and Islamic leanings of buhari but still went ahead to vote him(buhari) how do u feel now sincerely.i mean how do u all feel seeing that everything they promised u were all lies n dog shit..especially after the numerous warnings prior to the elections. Now I'm not referring to these paid apc/bmc online terrorists and thugs..theirs is explainable because they betrayed humanity for 30k that cannot afford a bag of rice..