Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel
Global Community Church in Lagos State, on Sunday, lamented the activities of
bandits in the North.
Bakare said President Muhammadu Buhari’s shoot-on-sight
order on those illegally wielding AK-47 has not been able to curtail the
activities of bandits.
Recall that Buhari had ordered security agents to shot
anybody illegally having AK-47.
Buhari had given the order following the increasing
activities of bandits and killer herdsmen in the country.
However, Bakare said the order has not been able to stop
attacks by bandits.
The clergyman stated this in his state of the nation address
in his church.
The address reads partly: “Our agriculture and food
sufficiency policies have also borne the brunt of the state of the nation.
While bandits and cattle rustlers have continued to terrorise farmers and
cattle owners in the North, the activities of criminal herdsmen have destabilised
farming in southern Nigeria.
“Not even the president’s controversial shoot-on-sight order
for illegal bearers of AK-47 guns has proved sufficient to abate these attacks.
“Worse still, the recent eviction of herdsmen from some
states in the South and the retaliatory embargo on food supply from the North
to the South of Nigeria are clear indicators that failure to solve foundational
problems of nationhood can destabilise shallow policies.
“The massacre of dozens of rice farmers in Garin Kwashebe
was one clear indicator of the limitation of window dressing in governance
intervention.”
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