El-Rufai Slams FG’s ‘Kiss-the-Bandits’ Strategy, Calls It a National Security Risk
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has sharply criticized the Federal Government’s approach to tackling banditry, labeling it a flawed “kiss-the-bandits” policy. Speaking on Sunday Politics on Channels Television, he accused the government of empowering criminal elements rather than confronting them head-on.
What El-Rufai Is Saying
El-Rufai argues that providing monthly allowances and food aid to bandits under the guise of ‘non-kinetic’ tactics only emboldens these groups.
“What I will not do is to pay bandits, give them a monthly allowance… It’s nonsense; we’re empowering bandits,” he said, calling the policy a national directive from the Office of the NSA.
He added that such tactics don’t resolve insecurity; they deepen it.
“You do not negotiate from the position of weakness… That is why the insecurity problem has not gone away,” he warned.
In fact, El-Rufai doesn’t mince words on solutions:
“The only repentant bandit is a dead one. Let’s bomb them until they are reduced to nothing,” he insisted.
Community Awareness and Transparency
He also emphasized that residents in states like Katsina, Zamfara, and Kaduna know what’s truly unfolding on the ground—despite any official narratives or media spin—and promised that he’d reveal more when the time is right
The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) swiftly dismissed El-Rufai’s claims. In a statement, ONSA labeled the allegations as unsubstantiated, affirming that the government has never paid ransoms or given inducements to bandits. It also highlighted the dual strategy of runtime “kinetic operations” alongside community engagement efforts as the reason behind recent security improvements
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