Buhari gives Police, Military power to be ruthless on bandits

President Muhammadu Buhari discloses that he has given the military and police power to be ruthless on bandits in the North-west and North-central zones of the nation.

Buhari declared this in an interview on Arise TV, aired Thursday morning and monitored by Top Naija. The comment of the President comes in the midst of increase in the activities of bandits in some states in the two regions.

Thousands of people, which include students, have been abducted for ransom in various states in the regions.

These have made several farmers abandon their farms while some others negotiate with the bandits to go to their farms.

In the interview, President Buhari stated that Nigerians will see the difference in the activities of the security agents.

The President declared that the nation cannot afford another famine that could arise if the activities of the bandits are not addressed.

He said, “People of the same culture killing each other, stealing each other’s cattle, as I said; we are going to treat them in a language they understand.

“We are going to give the police and the military power to be ruthless and you watch it, in a few weeks’ time, they will be different.”