Only way to stop banditry is kill them all – El-Rufai

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has advised that the only way to end banditry in Nigeria is to kill them all.

Speaking at a dialogue tagged: “Financing Safe Schools: Creating Safe Learning Communities” in Abuja, yesterday, El-Rufai noted that the military should storm forests where bandits stay, bomb the whole place in order to eliminate them.

The Governor also disclosed that all governors of the North have agreed that bandits must be wiped out.

He said: “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. We must go into these forests; nobody living in that forest is innocent and just kill them all. It is the only way to end this.”

He also disclosed that the military needs sophisticated weapons in order to effectively wipe out bandits

“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. It’s the only way to stop this. So long as these bandits are being paid, it’ll remain a business.

“So the only option that we have is to ensure that we kill them all. What you see is the coordinated action with air power, use of drones,” he added.