Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir Nasir El-Rufai has disclosed that it would require one to three months to wipe out all bandits terrorising the north.
El-Rufai made this known on Tuesday during an event on ‘Financing Safe School’, which held in Abuja.
According to the governor, his ‘kill them all’ position is aligned with the thoughts of the 36 state governors of the country.
The PUNCH reports though that some northern governors, particularly Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, had other ideas such as a dialogue with bandits and granting of amnesty.
Not known to mince words, El-Rufai maintained that kidnapping would remain a business as long as the bandits were being paid ransoms.
Consequently, he charged security agencies to eliminate anyone found in the hideouts of bandits, adding that no inhabitants of forests were innocent.
“Our position as governors and we are unanimous in this because we, the northern states’ governors, met with the President on this subject. Our unanimous position is to wipe out the bandits. Nobody living in that forest is innocent, and just kill them all. It is the only way to end this.
“We need the combination of airpower, and we need troops on the ground augmented by local expertise and knowledge. We need just one, two, three months’ operation to just try to kill all the bandits,” he said.
