The Senate Committee Chairman on
Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has said bandits, terrorists and other criminals must
not be spared in the onslaught by the military and other security agents.
He said, terrorists, bandits and
other criminal gangs, who are being bombarded across the northern part of the
country, have lost their “human rights” the moment they picked arms against the
state and the people, cautioning those who warn security agents to be mindful
of human rights of criminal not to “play the devil.”
The lawmaker representing Borno
South Senatorial district maintained his position that terrorists should be
wasted at a go once they are caught, while he lamented the huge casualties they
have wreaked on innocent citizens in the past years.
Senator Ndume stated this when asked
to speak on operations of the military in the Northwest and in other places
with regards to human rights of criminal elements by journalists in Abuja.
He chided those blaming the
military for not being conscious of the human rights of bandits in their
operations, stressing that in war there were bound to be casualties.
He said: “We are facing serious
armed bandits and it affects all of us and when army stands to the occasion,
the next thing you people start talking about is human rights, mass killing and
others, so what do you want the military to do? Not to fight? Not to have
casualties in the course of the fight?
“One of the major problems in
this country is the press. Instead of playing the angel, they play the devil.
Why don’t you play the angel? We are fighting this war and I don’t know if you
are from the North West and go there to see what these people have made life to
be.
“If we can identify bandits that
have been killing people recklessly, we don’t have to waste time to kill them.
When we start talking about human rights, which right? What of the right of
people that were killed, what of children that were killed and what of women
that were raped and when the Nigerian Army stands to ambush them, then you
start asking me about human rights.”
He insisted that the military
should go ahead killing them while the legislature would do all it can to
provide the needed legislative backing for them.
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