Popular Nigerian journalist and TV news anchor, Rufai Oseni, has raised concerns over the method used by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government to handle bandits.
Speaking via a viral video, Oseni lamented that the Federal Government is negotiating with bandits to secure the release of victims instead of taking a more radical approach.
He was reacting to the release of 24 schoolgirls abducted by bandits in Maga, Kebbi State, last week.
Naijaonpoint reports that the 24 schoolgirls were released by the bandits on Tuesday.
Reacting, President Tinubu said, “I am relieved that all 24 girls have been accounted for.”
However, Oseni fumed that Tinubu’s government, which handed the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, life imprisonment through the courts, for inciting violence, is now negotiating with bandits for the release of kidnapped victims.
“I am happy about the fact that the kidnapped people were released. Halluaah. But what do they mean that they spoke with the kidnappers or bandits, and they released the people? Is it that you people did not arrest them? And you left them to go like that so that they would kidnap another person just as they have done? I shoulder a disbelief at what is happening in Nigeria.
“You negotiated with the criminals, bandits, and terrorists as what? a business partners? Should the government be negotiating in a case where it has superpowers? The same government has jailed Nnamdi to life imprisonment for inciting violence. Still, the same people who kidnap and take people against their will, the government has the temerity to say we negotiate with them,” he said.
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