Popular Nigerian journalist and Arise Television anchor, Rufai Oseni has expressed concern over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government regarding the release of 24 schoolgirls abducted by bandits in Maga, Kebbi State, last week.
In a viral video on Wednesday, Oseni criticised the government for negotiating with terrorists to secure the schoolgirls’ release instead of taking direct, forceful action.
He highlighted what he sees as an inconsistency in the government’s approach, noting that while Tinubu’s administration handed the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, a life sentence for inciting violence, it is now negotiating with kidnappers.
Oseni said, “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 will 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? 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.