Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina says the military is sending bandits to God to answer for their sins.
Gatekeepers News reports that Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Nigerian Military for speaking to the bandits “in the language they understand.”
Adesina commended the troops on Thursday, in an article titled – ‘I Like This Pampering. Don’t you?’
The Presidential Spokesman said “One has never been prouder of our troops. They are cleaning up the country.”
According to him, these criminals who have terrorised Zamfara, Kaduna, and Niger states among others were given a chance to turn over a new leaf, but they refused.
Adesina wrote, “I see the hair splitting over whether they should be called terrorists rather than bandits, and I laugh. Sheer sophistry. Whether insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, ritual killers, criminals are criminals. And what do you do to such? Eliminate. Annihilate. Obliterate. If they won’t let decent society be, get rid of them. That is one case when an eye for an eye won’t make the whole world go blind.”
He further noted that “From the forests of a thousand daemons in Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger states, among others, bandits, criminals, evildoers are taking a pounding.
“In their scores, scores upon scores, they are being spoken to in the language they understand, and sent to God to answer for their sins. One has never been prouder of our military.
“Before they got to this sorry pass, they had the chance to turn a new leaf. Zamfara, Katsina, and many other states offered dialogue.
“The governments tried to negotiate with them. But they were contumacious. Like dogs fated for destruction, they refused to hear the hunters’ whistle. They filled the land with sorrow, tears, and blood, ‘dem regular trademark’ (as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti would say). Now, the shoe is on the other foot.
“In the different evil forests, when the Nigerian Air Force strikes from the sky, the remnants of the evildoers not killed immediately attempt to flee. The ground troops then pick them off like flies.”
The Presidential Spokesman said the security challenges inherited by the Buhari administration mutated and became hydra-headed.
He wrote, “A government exists to solve problems, and that is what President Buhari has been committed to doing. But some people, out of evil hearts and petty political gains, want it to be the definition of the government.
“He could not secure the country. Thousands of citizens were killed under him. But they will be shocked! The insecurity ravaging the land will soon become history.
“Where will they then hide their faces?”
