{"id":153363,"date":"2022-02-24T16:16:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=153363"},"modified":"2022-02-24T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:22:22","slug":"el-rufai-reveals-why-army-was-reluctant-to-bomb-bandits-before-fgs-proscription-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/24\/el-rufai-reveals-why-army-was-reluctant-to-bomb-bandits-before-fgs-proscription-order\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai reveals why army was reluctant to bomb bandits before FG&#8217;s proscription order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai has stated that the Nigerian military was reluctant to bomb bandits because of concerns about facing the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n<p>A federal high court in Abuja on November 25, 2021 declared the activities of all bandit groups in the country as acts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/16\/terrorism-kanus-case-too-big-for-nigeria-to-handle-umeh\/\">terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the declaration, many Nigerians had asked the federal government to initiate the process for the declaration of bandits as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, the federal government finally released a gazette proscribing bandits as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday at a media briefing at the presidential villa, el-Rufai said he had advised the federal government to declare bandits as terrorists in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaduna governor disclosed that he was informed that it would be difficult to declare bandits as terrorists because they do not have \u201csingle command\u201d like Boko Haram and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/23\/troops-neutralise-iswap-boko-haram-terrorists-in-borno\/\">ISWAP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said with the latest development, he believes the military now has the necessary legal backing to go after bandits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far back as 2017, we saw the danger of this (referring to banditry). We made a presentation to the federal government to declare these bandits as terrorists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut based on advice, it was said that since they do not have single command and control the way Boko Haram, ISWAP and terrorists are, it is difficult to declare them insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m happy that by the ruling of the federal high court, they have now been declared as terrorists so there is a fair game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military was afraid of bombing them and then facing ICC. You know the media and civil societies always rise to protect those at the receiving end of something, not looking at the victims of those people sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo general wants to retire and then you go to the US and they arrest you and say you have bombed civilians. So, there is reluctance on the part of the military. 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