Banditry In Plateau: Kill Anyone You See With Illegal Weapon — Buhari Orders Soldiers

 

“The Commander-in-Chief, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked us to gun down anybody seen carrying an illegal weapon and we must carry out the order. Those people must be criminals. You have to go into the bush and clear them wherever they are hiding”.

OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | AUGUST 10, 2021

Despite heavy troops’ presence in the state, plateau state has suffered several attacks in recent times forcing the traditional ruler to declare that some soldiers told him that they have orders not to stop or kill marauding herdsmen.

The marauding killer herdsmen have murdered scores of indigenes in recent weeks. An interesting fact that gave credence to the traditional rulers’ revelation is that the marauders attack in broad daylight, stealing, killing, raping, and destroying farmlands unhindered.

Communities in Riyom and Bassa Local Government Areas are worst hit even as reports claimed that an attempt to enter Rayfield some days ago was foiled by airforce personnel guarding entries into the GRA.

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However, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Ali, the General Officer Commanding 3 Division in Rukuba, who was been accused of acting on an “order” to wipe out the Miango chiefdom, told his men on Monday in what appears as a new directive from the president that anyone found carrying an illegal weapon must be killed.

It was also gathered that the President approved a special operation after a comprehensive security report by the National Security Adviser’s office.

“The Commander-in-Chief, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked us to gun down anybody seen carrying an illegal weapon and we must carry out the order.

“Those people must be criminals. You have to go into the bush and clear them wherever they are hiding”, he said.

Ali further disclosed that the time frame for the operation is ten days.

The GOC visited some areas in Miango and Biyei attacked by the killers.

Though this is not the first of such order as the president earlier in the years declared that illegal possession of AK-47 was an offence the military must not condone, there Nigerians are wondering why many of those foreign herders in the forests are still not been apprehended.

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