Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says what the Federal
Government has done to AK-47-wielding bandits is worse than designating them as
terrorists.
He spoke in an interview with BBC News Pidgin on Saturday
morning.
Garba was responding to a question on why the regime of his
principal, Muhammadu Buhari, has not outlawed
blood-sucking bandits just as the current government proscribed the Indigenous
People of Biafra and moved to do the same to Yoruba Nation secessionist group.
“What the Buhari administration has done to the
arms-wielding bandits is worse than being declared as terrorists. There is a
subsisting order by the President that any arms-wielding, AK-47 bandits should
be shot on sight.
“Yes, IPOB has been proscribed by law of the land, there is
no shoot-on-sight order,” Shehu said.
“The Nigerian Air Force is busy bombing locations, the
military is there on the ground, exchanging fire for fire, taking them out in
hundreds, that is certainly not treating people (bandits) lightly,” he added.
The presidential aide also said, “One thing people who say
that ignore is the successes that are being recorded in many areas in the fight
against insurgency in the country.”
Garba claimed there have been “enormous successes” recorded
in dealing with bandits and terrorists. “For instance, Boko Haram are
surrendering today in their thousands, this did not just happen,” he noted.
According to him, a lot of the bandits are being circled and
taken out. “It is a matter of time, they will be substantially reduced and the
Nigerian state will be safe all over again,” Shehu assured Nigerians.
In September 2017, the Attorney General of the Federation,
Abubakar Malami (SAN); and the then Solicitor General of the Federation and
Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr Dayo Apata; had
approached the Federal High Court in Abuja to give judicial backing to the
Executive Order of President Buhari, outlawing IPOB and its activities in every
part of Nigeria.
The then Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court,
Justice Abdu Kafarati, had granted the order proscribing IPOB.
The Federal Government said
it might proscribe the Yoruba Nation movement led by Prof Banji Akintoye and
Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho.
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