Buhari Govt treating bandits worse than IPOB – Presidency

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari treats bandits worst than the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. He said the President has done worst to AK-47 wielding bandits than IPOB.

Shehu, who spoke on BBC News Pidgin, was reacting to a question on why the Buhari’s administration has not outlawed bandits just as it proscribed IPOB.

He explained that the current government only proscribed IPOB, but gave a shoot-on-sight order against bandits.

According to Shehu: “What the Buhari administration has done to the arms-wielding bandits is worse than being declared as terrorists. There is a subsisting order by the President that any arms-wielding, AK-47 bandits should be shot on sight.

“Yes, IPOB has been proscribed by law of the land; there is no shoot-on-sight order.

“The Nigerian Air Force is busy bombing locations; the military is there on the ground, exchanging fire for fire, taking them out in hundreds, that is certainly not treating bandits lightly.”