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And now, you have these people infiltrating, collecting money for ransoms, raping women and sending them back to Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who is comparing them to militants in the Niger Delta, I want to ask the person to tell me what their objectives are. You cannot as a country be dealing with faceless criminals, who are harassing your populace, and let them go free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened in the Niger Delta is totally different from what we are experiencing now. In the Niger Delta, people were protesting for the pollution of their environment. And because of that, they said \u2018if you are taking the oil and we are not going to benefit from it\u2019, then they started blowing up oil installations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amachree added that while leaders of militants are known, some of the bandits are foreigners who want to live on their own terms in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor these bandits, we are talking of criminals, some of whom we have discovered are not from Nigeria. 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