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• The decision is part of efforts to curb terrorist activities, checkmate loopholes and cut off terrorists’ sources of funding.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Federal Government has said it is considering placing a ban on the use of motorcycles, popularly known as okada.

The decision is part of efforts to curb terrorist activities, checkmate loopholes and cut off terrorists’ sources of funding.

Addressing state house correspondents after the end of Thursday’s National Security Council Meeting, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said investigations are still ongoing especially to establish the correlation between mining and motorcycles, which they suspect provide funding for the supply of arms to the terrorists.

Malami, who noted that terrorists had moved from the conventional ways of funding their activities to mining and ransom from kidnapping, disclosed the government was not unaware of the economic consequences of the proposed resolutions, particularly the motorcycle ban, but it has become imperative, in order to guarantee the nation’s security.

The minister, who was flanked by his Interior and Police Affairs counterparts, Rauf Aregbesola and Mohammed Dingyadi, said the meeting focused on the logistics used by the terrorists to stop their activities.

He said the government needed to act because terrorists had moved from the conventional ways of funding their activities to mining and ransom taking.

Malami said the motorcycles were used by the bandits for movement, while mining provides them the money to fund their arms supply.

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On whether the government would consider the implications of the ban of motorcycles and mining activities on ordinary Nigerians and the economy, the minister said the federal government would place national and public interests above individual interests.

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