The Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-rufai has advised the Federal government to stop paying ransoms and instead kill all the Bandits in the North.
The Governor, who spoke at a dialogue: “Financing Safe Schools: Creating Safe Learning Communities” in Abuja, yesterday, claimed his other colleagues were in agreement that bandits must be completely wiped out.
He stated that all the Bandits can be killed using drones and Bombardment. He said;
“Our position as governors and we are unanimous in this because we, the northern states’ governors, met with the president on this subject…our unanimous position is to wipe out the bandits.”
“We must go into these forests, nobody living in that forest is innocent, and just kill them all. It is the only way to end this.”
“We need the combination of air power, and we need troops on the ground augmented by local expertise and knowledge. We need just one, two, three months operation to just try to kill all the bandits.”
“It’s the only way to stop this. So long as these bandits are being paid, it’ll remain a business. So the only option that we have is to ensure that we kill them all.”
He admonished the Government to furnish troops with more sophisticated weapons.
“I think the security agencies also need more advanced technology. The Air force needs more drones. Drones are much cheaper than planes and there are drones now that can carry missiles. Because they (bandits) know when they hear the sound of the aircraft and hide in the bushes.”
“But drones can be more targeted, more selective and quiet. And drones can also fly in circumstances that airplanes cannot due to bad weather.”
