AFRIQUECAN: THE Federal Government has been asked to promise bandits a promising future by negotiating with them.
A former Minister of Communication Adebayo Shittu, who made this suggestion, said that most of the people who engage in kidnapping are able-bodied men whom the Federal Government should retain.
“If I am in position, it is not too late to use non-kinetic measures in negotiating with bandits, giving them a promising future. Let us retain them. Many of them are very intelligent, many of them are able-bodied,” Shittu said while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.
Adebayo said a non-kinetic approach in dealing with banditry would bring about a lot of results.
He said the millions of out-of-school children in Northern Nigeria is a “production factory for banditry” in the country.