Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has said the administration of President Bola Tinubu has killed at least 14 bandit leaders.

This was as he praised Tinubu for surpassing former President Muhammadu Buhari in terms of security, noting that throughout the eighth years of the Buhari administration, not a single bandit leader was arrested, killed or convicted.

"But under the Tinubu administration, more tha 14 notoriously murderous bandit leaders have been killed," he said.

In a statement on Friday, Omokri named the killed bandit leaders to include Kachalla Ali Kawaje, Kachalla Halilu Sububu, Kachalla Damina, Kachalla Dangote, Kachalla Jafaru, Kachalla Barume, Kachalla Shehu, Tsoho, Kachalla Yellow Mai Buhu, Yellow Sirajo, Kachalla Dan Muhammadu, Kachalla Makasko, Yellow Hassan, Boderi, Kachalla Dan Ba Birki and Auta Dan Mai Jan Kai.

He said their death has led to the return of peace in Kaduna and its neighbouring states.

"No more do we see photos of prominent persons having meetings with heavily armed Kachalla/bandit leaders as occurred under the previous administration. Instead, bandits are being killed, arrested, tried and convicted," he said.

He lamented that during the Buhari administration, parts of Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and other states were occupied by bandits, adding that Nigerians living in Abuja could hardly travel to Kaduna.

According to him, during Buhari's reign, a thousand terrorists on motorcycles invaded Kuje prison and freed over 500 of their fellow terrorist, including how Boko Haram militants were being rehabilitated and feted, with the government throwing graduation parties for them at which they wore trendy clothes with gifts given to them, while the orphans whose parents they killed were still in IDP camps.

"Terrorists breached Kaduna Airport, and flights were diverted to Abuja. Bandits infiltrated the Nigerian Defence Academy, and soldiers were killed and abducted. Even the Abuja-Kaduna railway built by President Jonathan was bombed, and tens of Nigerians were either killed or abducted.

"All that is history, as Nigeria is now more secure and has moved up in the Global Terror Index from the third most insecure country under Buhari to number six.

"Especially as separatists who caused mayhem and havoc with the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra in Nigeria's southeast region have been apprehended and are now facing trial in Nigeria and Finland, including their lynchpin, Nnamdi Kanu, and his minion, Simon Ekpa.

"Finally, with cybersecurity threats, such as that posed to Nigeria by Binance, which was funnelling $25 billion out of Nigeria annually, even as it shielded terror suspects and kingpins through the anonymity it afforded them, the National Security Adviser took decisive action that shut down their operations, stabilising Nigeria's fiscal regime," he said.

ASA