No Military Solution To North West Crisis – Shettima

• Vice President Kashim Shettima has sought Nigerians’ support for the federal government’s soon-to-be-unveiled solution to the North West crisis
• The VP stated that there can be no military solution to the North West crisis and that there has to be a kinetic and non-kinetic solution
• The VP was in Kano to pay his condolences to the Emir of Kano over the death of Malam Imam Galadanci

Vice-President Kashim Shettima has sought Nigerians’ support for the federal government’s soon-to-be-unveiled solution to the North West crisis.

The zone has been battling increased banditry, which has claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands more, with many stakeholders already calling for a change in the government’s military response to the crisis.

However, the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja reportedly kicked against the country’s amnesty programme for bandits and terrorists last week, claiming that rather than repent, beneficiaries of such programmes see the programme as an opportunity to regroup and attack innocent citizens.

However, the Vice President stated in Kano on Sunday that President Bola Tinubu is determined to redefine the meaning and concept of modern governance.

He stated that there can be no military solution to the North West crisis.

He said;

The crisis we have in the North West, further accentuated by poverty and social exclusion is something the president is determined to frontally confront and in the coming weeks, he is going to unveil the solution.

Unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition, there cannot be a military solution to the crisis in the North-West There has to be a kinetic and non-kinetic solution. And President Bola Tinubu in the next couple of weeks will unveil the Pulaku solution which will address the grievances and social exclusion of our Fulbe cousins in the Northwest; towards addressing the root causes of all the banditry and insurgency in the nation.

The VP was in Kano to pay his condolences to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, over the death of Malam Imam Galadanci, an in-law of the Sultan of Sokoto as well as the Emir of Bichi, Nasiru Ado Bayero. Kano state governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, received him and led him to the Emir’s palace.

At the Emir Palace, Kano’s Emir expressed gratitude to President Tinubu and the Vice President and expressed hope that both would develop policies and actions that would further the country’s development.