Criticising Zamfara Gov for granting amnesty to Bandits unfair – Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has tagged unfair the criticism of Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State for granting amnesty to bandits.
The minister made this remark when he spoke on AIT’s ‘Kakaaki on Wednesday.
He said the Federal Government won’t stop governors from addressing the security challenges in ways peculiar to their respective states.
According to the Minister, the nature of the problem differs from state to state and the governors as chief security officers of their various states were in the best position to deploy the best solutions to tackle the issues.
Mohammed said there was nothing wrong with granting amnesty to criminals if the purpose was to restore desired peace in affected areas.
“When you are fighting insurgency, you use both kinetic and non-kinetic (means). Granting amnesty to notorious drug barons, notorious militants is not a new thing, it is not unique to Nigeria.
“You need to be in the shoes of the Zamfara State government or governor to appreciate what are the issues at stake (and) why he has done that. Don’t also forget that the state governors are their own chief security officers, he said
You people know what you are doing, I know the government has an agenda. But God will judge
shut up you idiots…..
Do you mean that if another group take amunitions and start killing people and in a long run you will ask them to sheath their sword and grant them amnesty, this is bad.
Bad things is bad, no other name. What zamfara state governor did is condemnable and also not good at all. This is how another terrorist will also start with the hope getting amnesty.