The bandits terrorizing northern Nigeria were finally announced as terrorists on Wednesday 5 January. Government declares bandits terrorists after a devastating attack on innocent citizens FCT, Abuja – The federal government has finally declared bandits to be terrorists after weeks/months of agitation by Nigerians.
The Punch reports that the Federation’s Attorney General (AGF) and Justice Minister Abubakar Malami (SAN) have issued orders ordering the government to declare terrorist bandits.
Judge Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal Court in Abuja announced on Thursday, November 25, 2021, an ex parte application by the federal government for Jan Bindiga (word for gunman) and Jan Taada (word for terrorist) to be granted to terrorists.
The thugs mainly terrorized the northwestern geopolitical zone, specifically the states of Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna.
The bandits have spread to the north and other parts of the country. Bandits have killed hundreds of innocent people and abducted several others, including students, some of whom are still being held and some of whom were injured in the attack.
Nothing will change, Sheikh Gumi reacts to the announcements of the bandits just as terrorist Sheikh Ahmad Gumi previously reacted to the Federal Court’s decision declaring bandits a terrorist that this will not change anything. Kaduna-based Islamic scholar Malam Tukur Mamu, his media adviser and Dan-Ian Fika said in a statement that the bandits had been treated as terrorists even before the statement was made.
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According to him, bandits are herders and labeling them like that will cause more violence in the country. Meanwhile, Sheikh Gumi also said he stopped mediating with armed bandits after a court declared them terrorists. Before a federal court in Abuja declared the bandits’ terrorists, Gumi visited them in the forests of Zamfara and Niger.
He has also repeatedly asked the federal government to grant them a general amnesty, as extremists in the Niger Delta have done. Gumi states the bandits are terrorists and it is dangerous for her to continue fighting the bandits.
