Shehu Sani, a former lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly says the Federal Government should declare bandits who are attacking people terrorists or name them ‘ federal civil servants.’
They [bandits] killed Muslim worshippers in their mosques in Niger and Katsina states; they killed Christians in their Churches in Kaduna State; if the government doesn’t want to declare them terrorists, it should declare them federal civil servants,” Shehu Sani wrote in a Twitter message on Monday.
There have been calls from concerned Nigerians including members of the National Assembly to the Federal Government to declare the bandits terrorists.
Bashir Magashi, the Minister of Defence, had recently said that the need to follow due process was responsible for the delay in declaring bandits as terrorists.
Magashi said there was a procedure that needed to be observed before such a declaration.
“We are not declaring them terrorists because there is a procedure for doing that. When the procedure is followed, they will be classified as terrorists. We are waiting for the procedure to be completed,” Magashi, a retired major general, said.