Bandits Using Proceeds Of Abduction To Fund Boko Haram – El-Rufai

• El-Rufai joins a growing list of Nigerian leaders who believe there is a link between bandits and the infamous Boko Haram terrorists.
• NGF chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi had made the same assertion

A strong link has been established between the bandits terrorising the North West and the Boko Haram insurgents operating in the North East.

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, stated this when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, saying his government would not negotiate with bandits.

“It has been established that the kidnapping operations (by bandits) are substantially funding Boko Haram activities in the North East.

Read also: Restructuring Not An Attack On Nigeria’s Unity – Bakare

“Boko Haram has no way of getting any money and some of them have slipped and joined the ranks of the bandits, and together they are doing this to raise a large amount of money that are being used to fund the intensified operations of Boko Haram,” he said.

The governor decried that banditry and insurgency have evolved with time into what he described as a business and a structured industry.

He explained that this was so as the criminals now have various specialised roles within their ranks which enable them to attack communities.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

APC Will Take Over Bauchi In 2023 – Chieftain