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Niger Abduction: Bandits with RPG are terrorists, Nigerians fume
The news of the killing and abduction of some students and staff of Science College, Kagara, in Niger State, by ‘bandits’ on Wednesday morning has left a number of Nigerians angry.
According to reports, the suspected bandits killed a student after they stormed the school in the early hours of February 17, around 2am.
The level of insecurity in the country is becoming unbearable as banditry has risen to an alarming rate amidst ethnic clashes and abduction and killings by AK-47 wielding Fulani Herdsmen, amongst other things pushing the country to a boiling point.
Hours after the kidnap of the Niger students and staff, the suspected bandits reportedly released a video of the abducted persons as they could be seen brandishing sophisticated weapons.
Asides from what looks like AK-47s, one of the suspected bandits could be seen holding a shoulder-fired missile weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead known as a rocket-propelled grenade (often abbreviated RPG).
The sight of the RPG has left Nigerians who were condemning the act to question the need to refer to the suspects as bandits instead of terrorists.
See some reactions below:
Stop calling them Bandits with RPG, they are terrorists, the bigger issue here is that the government is willing to Negotiate with then , create an agency and send Gumi to negotiate, and the same government engage Peaceful #EndSARS protesters with force pic.twitter.com/F21axWYMQO
— xmen (@_anubankz) February 17, 2021
Listen, when a group of people are seen wielding RPG’s (highly sophisticated weapons) only meant for military purpose, they are not bandits with RPG, THEY ARE A TERRORIST GROUP AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH.
— Pastor Clinton🌚 (@Zaddy_Clinton) February 17, 2021
Buhari’s government was quick to proscribed IPOB without RPG terrorist group, but Bandits with RPG that are lowkey Boko haram members killing & kidnapping people are having round table meetings with governors and all, not calling these bandits with RPG terrorist yet is a joke.
— Architecture & Building Construction. (@UNCLE_AJALA) February 17, 2021
Buhari’s government was quick to proscribed IPOB without RPG terrorist group, but Bandits with RPG that are lowkey Boko haram members killing & kidnapping people are having round table meetings with governors and all, not calling these bandits with RPG terrorist yet is a joke.
— Architecture & Building Construction. (@UNCLE_AJALA) February 17, 2021
The way Nigerian leaders have been empowering bandits is the reason we see bandits with RPG today.
When Jonathan was there Niger Delta boys were receiving all kinds of financial empowerments. Today its Buhari and Northerners.
Only OBJ made sure govt never negotiated with bandits— ogechiero (@ogechiero) February 17, 2021
Boko hara is boko haram
Which one is Bandits with RPG or fulani herdsmen
This are the real terrorist not the protester
lets RETWEET this , lets SORO SOKE !!!
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Enisa NDLEA #Arewatwitter Eniola Jayden mazi pic.twitter.com/DycZq9sXO6— Queen Samira (@QueenSamira16) February 17, 2021
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