El-Rufai and fresh Kaduna attacks
by Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s promise that security agencies would take the battle to the bandits is not certain. They were in mourning on Monday when the governor visited, and by their accounts, were deeply traumatised by the loss of over 50 of their compatriots to the bandits’ killing spree.
It is unclear whether Mallam el-Rufai’s response to last Sunday’s fresh wave of killings was informed by the futility of his previous appeasement measures or by the ethnic identity of last Sunday’s attackers. But it is significant, and it may indeed be the high point of his condolence visits to the besieged communities, that he has sworn that there would be no negotiations with or amnesty for the attackers who have turned some parts of the state into war zones.
In Katsina and Zamfara, for instance, two states also reeling from bandit attacks, their governors have spoken glibly of negotiating with the bandits, offering them amnesty, and of course backing the exercise with financial inducements. These are counterintuitive measures steeped in brazen fallacies and intellectual laziness.
The Kaduna governor seems to set great store by military and police actions. He thinks the bandits can be wiped out. Yes, they should be wiped out. But they can’t be extirpated until the factors that encouraged them to take up arms against the state have been dealt with.
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