Admin l Tuesday, October 19, 2021
ABUJA, Nigeria – President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the reigning days of bandits are over and that they will soon suffer crushing defeat.. Buhari made the statement following reports of the massacre of over 30 traders in Goronyo, Sokoto State on Sunday.
In a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media, Mr. Garba Shehu, the president boasted that the days of the bandits were numbered because the military capabilities of the armed forces are being boosted with acquisition and deployment of advanced equipment.
“Do not to despair because this administration is determined more than ever before to protect Nigerians from murderous criminal gangs that have no respect for the sanctity human of life.”
The president extended his sympathy to the families of the victims of the Goronyo attack and called on the people to continue to be patient as the military strategised on how to deliver the crushing blow to these bandits.”
“The clock of your ultimate destruction is ticking as you will no longer have a place to hide. The bandits are living in the fool’s paradise of invincibility, but reality will soon dawn on them harder than ever before.
“The bandits are currently under desperate pressures because of the intense and sustained air and ground operations against them in their hideouts by our security forces.
“The cowardly attacks on innocent people by the bandits show a rearguard action of criminals under pressure. But they will have no place to hide and our gallant security forces will not relent in the current offensive to defeat these callous enemies of humanity,” the President said.
