Why We Haven’t Declared Bandits As Terrorists – FG

• Several persons, including Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, have called for the bandits to be proscribed as terrorists owing to the proliferation attacks in the North-West and North-Central

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Minister of Defense, Bashir Magashi, has explained that despite calls to proscribe bandits as terrorists, the Federal Government is yet to do so because it is still reviewing and following all the required procedures.

Magashi said this while responding to questions from journalists in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Friday when he led service chiefs to receive an operational brief from the headquarters of the theatre command Operation Hadin Kai.

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He assured the Theatre Commander and other principal officers that the Commander in Chief of the armed forces has provided all that is required to execute the war against insurgency in the northeast and other troubled areas like the northwest and the southeast.