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Military Moves To Deploy Tucano Warplanes To Decimate Bandits
- A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, declared activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups as acts of terrorism…
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Nigerian Air Force is ready to deploy Super Tucano aircrafts in the North-West and North-Central regions of the country to weed out the activities of bandits groups.
It was reported that the military had been cautious in deploying the warplanes outside the North-East because of conditions attached to its procurement by the United States, which was anchored on human rights.
PUNCH newspaper quoted top military sources in the military has saying that the coast is now clear to deploy the Super Tucano aircrafts against bandits especially in Niger, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara, following a court order declaring them as terrorists.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja had, in a ruling on Thursday, declared activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups as acts of terrorism.
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The ruling followed an ex parte motion filed by the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mohammed Abubakar.
The DPPF told the court that the ex parte application was filed on the instructions of President Muhammadu Buhari.
In the affidavit filed in support of the ex parte application, it was averred that security reports confirmed that bandits were behind “incessant kidnappings for ransom, kidnapping for marriage, mass abductions of schoolchildren and other citizens, cattle rustling, enslavement, imprisonment, severe deprivation of physical liberty, torture, rape sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, other forms of sexual violence, attacks and killings in communities and commuters and wanton destruction of lives and property in Nigeria, particularly in the North-West and North-Central states in Nigeria.”
After entertaining the ex parte application, Justice Taiwo declared the activities of the Yan Bindiga, group” and the “Yan Ta’adda groups and other similar groups in any part of the country, especially in the North-West and the North-Central as “acts of terrorism and illegality.”
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