My Govt Is At War With Bandits, Any Of Them Arrested Will Be Killed – Gov El-Rufai

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has made it clear that his government is at war with bandits and that any of them arrested in the state would be killed.

El-Rufai, who spoke today, February 8 in an interview with the BBC Hausa service in Kaduna, said that bandits kill ‘mercilessly’ because they don’t believe in religion.

“My administration is at war with the bandits and so we cannot negotiate. Eliminating them is the only solution to banditry,” El-Rufai said.

“I never believed that a Fulani herdsman who ventured into banditry and is collecting millions of Naira as ransom will repent. I spoke to Dr Gumi, who is my friend; I explained that the majority of these bandits don’t believe in the religion. That is why they kill mercilessly.

“Anybody who thinks a Fulani herdsman that was used to only getting N100,000 in a year, after selling a cow, but now is getting millions through kidnapping for ransom will stop is only wasting his time.”