Insecurity: Is The Buhari Regime Behind Armed Banditry As Alleged By A Repentant Bandit? – By Reno Omokri (Part 1)

This week, a video surfaced in which a repentant herdsman, of Fulani origin, alleged that he and other bandits were given AK-47s by the present administration, so that they could kill Nigerian citizens.

The man swore to this, and said his years of training as an almajiri led him to reject the bandit lifestyle, hence his admission.

Almost a week since that video went viral, the Buhari administration, which is usually very quick to respond to anything involving people or Fulani ethnicity, has remained loudly silent.

Is there silence consent? Is it an admission of guilt? Are these bandits, who are now killing Nigerians in evert state of the federation, people who were surreptitiously brought to Nigeria in the run up to the 2015 Presidential elections, and primed to soak innocent ‘dogs and baboons in blood’ in the event that General Buhari did not win that election?

It will be recalled that on November 20, 2014, then Governor Rotimi Amaechi, who was the Director General of the Buhari campaign organisation, threatened that if their party did not win the the 2015 election, the APC would not recognize the outcome and will form a parallel government.

The repentant bandit’s admission corroborates statements made by a former All Progressives Congress chieftain, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, who on his 70th birthday, a month ago, said:

“The Fulani causing security problems in the country were brought in to help facilitate victory in the 2015 election.

After the election, the Fulani have refused to leave. I and other like minds wrote and warned those we started APC with that this was going to happen but nobody listened.”

And as if the revelations by the repentant bandit were not enough, his words were corroborated by one of the released travellers, abducted by bandits in Niger. Upon their release, one of the freed women gave an interview to Channels TV right there at the Niger State Government House, in which she said the leader of the bandits that seized them, one Kachala Ali, said

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First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in today’s ThisDay.