{"id":32453,"date":"2021-05-11T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=32453"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:09:42","slug":"ex-nhis-boss-speaks-on-banditry-says-bandits-want-genuine-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/11\/ex-nhis-boss-speaks-on-banditry-says-bandits-want-genuine-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NHIS boss speaks on banditry, says bandits want genuine peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf has stated that bandits &#8220;want genuine peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated by the former executive secretary while speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yusuf, he has\u00a0learned from several meetings with the bandits that they are willing to listen to religious leaders.<\/p>\n<p>He said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/10\/we-receive-weapons-from-dss-agents-bandits\/\">bandits<\/a> \u201care tired\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what we find out, in all the five states we went in, they listen to clerics. In Niger state, they gathered in force to a meeting of war commanders, from six states, in the forest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody has drawn that kind of crowd, they listen to the Sheikhs. They are tired and want genuine peace. We go there through clerics. They listen to clerics; All clerics of all faiths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf added that although there\u2019s a role for the military in the fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/01\/katsina-emirate-suspends-district-head-over-alleged-involvement-in-banditry\/\">banditry<\/a>, it won\u2019t make the problem go away.<\/p>\n<p>He added that banditry is a social issue and should be treated as such.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a role for the military in all of these. Without the military, the north-west would have been overrun by Boko Haram, the north-central will be overrun by these bandits, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will overrun the south-east, there will be warlords all-over south-west,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a role for the military but if anybody tells you there\u2019s a military solution to this conflict, he\u2019s either dishonest or he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. There\u2019s no military solution to this problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBanditry is a social problem and not a military one. We are increasingly militarising what is essentially a social problem. We are dropping a million-dollar bomb on people we should be providing water for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf has stated that bandits &#8220;want genuine peace&#8221;. 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