Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has blasted his predecessor, Nasir El-Rufai, asking him to stop politicizing insecurity.
Speaking on Saturday in Kaduna at the presentation of ‘Where I Stand’, a book written by the late Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi and translated into Arabic by Sheikh Ibrahim Jalo Jalingo, the governor stated that firearms alone cannot end banditry.
DAILY POST recalls that El-Rufai in a television interview on August 31, criticised what he described as a “misguided non-kinetic” approach to insecurity, alleging that the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, coordinates ransom payments and incentives to bandits.
“What I will not do is to pay bandits, give them a monthly allowance or send food to them. Non-kinetic is nonsense. We are empowering bandits. That’s what is going on.
“My position has always been that the only repentant bandit is a dead one. Let’s wipe them out, bomb them, reduce them to nothing. And then the five percent that still want to be rehabilitated can be rehabilitated,” El-Rufai had said.
Responding, Sani disagreed, attributing banditry to poverty, unemployment, and neglect of rural communities are at the heart of banditry.
“Insecurity can’t be resolved solely through the use of firearms. Whoever makes such a claim is only playing politics. We must fear God and stop deceiving the people because that approach will not work,” Sani said.
