Outspoken former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani, has shared his opinion on why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government and state governors can not dialogue with bandits across the country.
The Kaduna lawmaker stated this via his verified Twitter handle on Sunday, July 2.
According to the senator, bandits are not like Boko Haram and ISWAP groups that murder people under the guise of religion.
The sociopolitical commentator said bandits are armed movements pursuing religious, ethnic, or political agenda.
Sani further disclosed that bandits have no single leadership but operate in clusters and as criminal gangs.
According to him:
“Dialogue with bandits will not work because of these three reasons; they are not an armed movement founded for the pursuit of any religious, ethnic or political causes, other than extortion by atrocious blackmail, abductions and cold-blooded murder of innocent citizens.
“Two, they are not united under a single leadership but operate in clusters and criminal gangs; three, their motivation is money; they kill and abduct for money.
“Bandits are unlike Iswap and Boko elements whose acts of abduction, terrorist attacks and slaughter of innocent citizens is done under the guise of religion.
“Dialogue with Bandits is a waste of time. Those governors who tried it later regretted it.”
