By Miracle Ogunde
Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has given reasons state governors, and the Federal Government should not dialogue with bandits.
The former Governor of Zamfara state, Ahmed Yerima had on Saturday advocated the need for government to dialogue with bandits in a bid to address the growing insecurity in the North.
However, Sani who spoke on Sunday in a statement on his verified Twitter handle said bandits are not like Boko Haram and ISWAP that murder people under the guise of religion.
He explained that bandits are armed movement pursuing religious, ethnic, or political agenda, adding that have no single leadership but operate in clusters and as criminal gangs.
Sani said, ” Dialogue with Bandits will not work because of these three reasons; they are not an armed movement founded for the pursuit of any religious,ethnic or political causes,other than extortion by atrocious blackmail,abductions and cold blooded murder of innocent citizens.
” Two,they are not united under a single leadership but operates in clusters and and criminal gangs;three,their motivation is money;they kill and abduct for money.
” Bandits are unlike Iswap and Boko elements whose acts of abduction,terrorist attacks and slaughter of innocent citizens is done under the guise of religion.
Dialogue with Bandits is a waste of time.Those Governors who tried it later regretted it.”
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