Kaduna killings: We want terrorists to repent – El-Rufai

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has stated that he wants bandits to repent.
He, however, said he will no negotiate with them.

El-Rufai restated his position during an expanded meeting of the State Security Council on Tuesday in Kaduna.

The meeting was attended by government officials, security agencies, traditional rulers, religious leaders, and people from professional associations, trade unions, and civil society groups.

“We will not engage with bandits or kidnappers. Private citizens like clerics and clergymen can do so in their individual capacities, to preach to them and ask them to repent.

We also want them to repent. But it is not our job to ask them to do so,” said El-Rufai.

“The best way to solve the farmer-herder violent clashes, cattle rustling, and banditry, according to the governor, is for nomadic herdsmen to live sedentary lives.”

He added that this would make them more productive and give their children education and access to better health care.