The Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has said the only way through which insurgency can be defeated is for the security officers to collaborate together and take the war to them directly.
Gov. El-Rufai said this during a town hall security meeting organized by the Honorable Minister of Culture and Information which held in Kaduna State.
Gov. El-Rufai as quoted by The Punch, said: “These bandits have lost their right to life under our constitution and must be wiped out in their entirety. There is no other way to approach the current insurgency situation today as far as governmental action is concerned.
“The bandits are at war with Nigeria and there is no other way to approach the current insurgency but for security forces to take the war to the bandits and recover forests where they are occupying.
“The security agencies mostly react to cases of banditry and abduction, we are in a war with these terrorist challenging the sovereignty of the Nigerian state.
“Our security forces must collaborate to take the war to the bandits and terrorists, recover and restore the forest to enable our law-abiding citizens to engage in legitimate farming and livestock production” he concluded.
