Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, on Wednesday tackled President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘lenient’ treatment of bandits.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that “bandits”, the catchall phrase for criminal gangs masterminding frequent bouts of abduction, maiming, sexual violence and killings of citizens across vast swaths of northern Nigeria, have been terrorising Nigeria’s ‘Wild Wild West’.
Many of the groups are believed to comprise mostly of ethnic Fulanis, including pastoralists and mercenaries from the region as well as neighbouring Chad and the Niger Republic.
Their activities, as well as the violence linked to the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Boko Haram insurgents, are top of the security challenges the administration of Buhari is confronted with.
But diaspora-based Omokri posits that President Buhari, a northerner, is not dealing with bandits in the same way he is handling Biafra separatist activities in Eastern Nigeria region. He made a flashback to 2021 when Buhari, in a tweet, threatened to punish those “bent on destroying Nigeria through insurrection.”
“How many people did IPOB kill before Buhari threatened them with his now infamous ‘speak to them in a language they understand’ tweet? How come he has not spoken to terrorists in the same language? Is it because they are from his tribe, and not a dot in a circle?” Omokri wrote on his verified Twitter handle.
