The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has
said bandits cannot be proscribed in Nigeria because they don’t go by any name.
Mohammed who made this known in an interview on AIT’s
Kaakaki programme on Wednesday said proscribing the
bandits is not what really matters but how they are treated.
“You proscribe known groups with names. You can’t just
proscribe an unknown group legally,” he said.
“Secondly, it’s not whether they are proscribed or not, it
is the way they are treated. Does the government actually treat them with kid
gloves? The answer is no.”
Mohammed also pointed out that there is a difference between
the bandits and the Indigenous People of Biafra, a group that has been
proscribed by the Federal Government.
He said, “When a group is championing a course for the
disintegration of Nigeria… A group like IPOB (that) does not even recognise
Nigeria as a state, sets up its own army and think it is a sovereign state is
different from bandits and criminals. Please, don’t compare apples and
oranges.”
When asked if the bandits aren’t also threatening the
sovereignty of Nigeria by taking up arms against the citizens, the Minister
said the cases are completely different.
He said, “Security challenges are one thing. Challenging the
sovereignty of Nigeria is a completely different thing. Don’t let us dwell on
semantics.”
Speaking further, he said, “Don’t armed robbers threaten the
security of lives and property? They do. Is there anywhere in the world that
armed robbers have been proscribed?”
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