The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, assured Nigerians of their safety as he condemned the latest attacks on villages in Kaduna State by bandits, leaving many dead.

Houses and farmlands were also set ablaze.

Buhari said he was saddened by the killings, but added that his regime would step up ongoing security operations to end such attacks.

Media reports indicated on Monday that about 51 lives were lost when the attackers reportedly invaded four villages in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday.

The villages listed included Marina, Zareyawa and Kerewa.

“From reports received, it is obvious that these bandits are unleashing their fury and frustration on innocent people because of the ongoing military and police offensive against them in the Birnin Gwari and Kaduru forests,” a State House statement by Buhari’s media aide, Mr Garba Shehu, said Monday night.

It added, “The criminals cannot be lucky always; we are determined to frustrate and defeat them, and no matter how long they run or where they hide, they would be smoked out and brought to justice.”

The Presidency stated further that the latest attacks were a form of blackmail to force the government to back down from the military operations.

But, it said this would not happen.

“This administration would not be blackmailed by criminals to abandon the current military operations against them.

Buhari commiserated with the families of the victims and the survivors.

There are currently ongoing military operations against suspected bandits in Niger, Kaduna, Zamfara, Katsina and a couple of other North-West states.

In February, Buhari ordered air strikes against the bandits in Niger and major hideouts along the boundaries of the North-Central/North-West states.

However, the operations appear not to have deterred the bandits, who attack at will, getting away without much efforts the majority of times.

Source: https://punchng.com/insecurity-again-buhari-assures-nigerians-of-safety-as-bandits-kill-51-in-kaduna/

51 people in one night and we are more concerned about Corona Virus ?

Ostofagus

Its really unfotunate

this Govt is playing media game, say it out that u have sent ur air team, but backstage they are doing nothing. just like Obama fighting Isis, meanwhile they were acting film, leaving the target and bombing empty place.

The very experienced army general with lots security experience will most likely bring stability and security the bloody civilian GEJ could not provide.

Some how security exists only in the malingering mind of Buhari, not in the nation.

51 people?
What was their offense? Just their location, I think

Buhari the Terrorist President......

Arrewa and tesphanyah, is this the north you say we should visit and see development?

Tufiakwa!

I thought they were paid a huge sum to become repentant. What happened to the money, not enough....they want more
This is why you dont reward terrorists. Soon as their money run out they will escalate terror. Yet, Buhari did not find it odd when he told the rest of Governors to do what Matwalle did in Zamfara to restore security.

El Rufai gave them money to stop them from attacking Southern Kaduna and kidnapping for ransom. When the money ran out they took to highway kidnapping and ransom. Now that they want more money from Rufai and started back terrorizing Souther Kaduna.

Masari in Katsina invited bandits to surrender weapon in exchange for money and forgiveness. The bandits did not surrender their assault rifles.....instead they surrendered locally made dane guns that fires gun powder and pellets. They used the money to acquire more assault rifles and expanded their recruitment. Now they have more members than before the forgiveness.

Matawalle in Zamfara banned Hausa vigilante group and invited fulani bandits to government house for negotiation. After their meeting he called the commander of the military operation and told him to stop assault on bandits. He announced and said bandits are now repentant. He announced a huge allocation out of Zamfara budget to go towards rehabilitation of repentant bandits. Bandits released their kidnapped victims, including some district heads. Few months later, they went back and rekidnapped all those district heads and the people earlier released. One district head lost his son to them while he remained captive. They said government had not honored the deal. They started back raiding villages. When military commander renewed his assault on them they crossed into Katsina and started going village by village killing people and abducting district heads.

Northern leadership should be blamed. When they realized the rest of the country acted unconcerned they started exporting their bandits Southward. There were several cases of towns or villages waking up and finding truckloads of unexplained fulanis in their community. It happened in Obudu, it happened in Enugu, it happened in Ondo.

Look, this is not a Nigerian problem. This is North problem to deal with. By cajoling this rubbish the rest of the country is acting as an enabler. Our leaders need to tell Arewa Elders and Nothern Forum to find solution to this issue locally. If they want to reward and rehabilitate unrepentant terrorists, fine....na their problem...let them deal with it over there.

I think our population of over 200m people in Nigeria is really making the death of 51 people insignificant.
Picture yourself as the head of a clan of 20 and every other day, militias come to kill two or three and all you do is continue to assure those left of their safety and these people see no concrete actions in that regard. One day the leader will wake up to find he has nobody in his clan because they've all been killed.

Assures after new 51 killings.

Abeg, which kind audio assurance be that?

The core north can continue to reward religous fanatism , illiteracy, abject poverty(almajirism which one fat buffon said is their culture), armed banditary & terrorism(BH, fulanis) with amnesty as they like, but karma will keep on calling.

Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. ) , on Monday , assured Nigerians of their safety as he condemned the latest attacks on villages in Kaduna State by bandits, leaving many dead

Na today we don dey hear d word "assured" frm naija police, our armies and even d major general himself

Mr Assurance !
You have been assuring Nigerians of safty since 2015, and people keep on dying after many assurance. You can only decieve the Yoruba's , not we the ss/ se, caused we know you right from inception, that's why we never wasted our voted on you !

What is this one assuring? That word (Assure) is getting me so pissed off like.... This guy is just so dull, empty skull. In search of a solution, Nigeria found a serious problem. GMB is a mistake Nigeria will live to regret

Someone said the real Buhari is dead, I wanted to argue but looking at how our president is getting worst everyday, I couldn't say a word. I think that guy might have said the truth.

Killings everyday and he keeps giving empty assurance.

His kinsmen are there in the north killing and he's done nothing productive to that.

He keeps putting northerners in key key posts in the country.
I think Buhari is a remote controlled president

Audio assurance

this bandits they vex oo


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Baba, Keep Assuring and Deceiving them while they slaughter their families






By the way we sell affordable loans

Wehdone

Buhari is a hypocrite

because corona virus affects the rich also

GamalNasser:
51 people in one night and we are more concerned about Corona Virus ?

They will keep assuring. Even if they killed in hundreds.

Buhari knows what he's doing. Him and ElRufai want to rule the North even if it's one man left there

Buhari and his fake promises

The aged ancestor does not know the difference between terrorists and bandits.

Corona virus dey learn work where these animals dey

We all know the weak nepotistic tyrant has nothing to offer except misery