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General News of Monday, 15 June 2020

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Traditional rulers are aiding bandits - Garba Shehu

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The Senior Special Adviser tot he President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has said that some traditional rulers in Katsina State are aiding bandits.

Speaking on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily programme, Garba Shehu said that the traditional rulers help the bandits to escape when security agents come to arrest them.

According to him, some people are benefitting from the attacks by the banditss.

“It is not that we are making direct accusations on anyone but it is also true that even in the president’s native state of Katsina, some traditional rulers have been found complicit in collaboration with the bandits to harm their own people,” he said.

“In neighbouring Zamfara, emirs and district heads, quite a number of them have been swept out of office. The thing is there are beneficiaries of whatever rotten system you have.

“At some point, the Nigerian Air Force had to put a number of aircraft in Katsina, they are still there. In the early part of that operation attacking Zamfara which then was the epicentre.

“They realised that once aircraft took off from Katsina airport, before it got to Zamfara for operation, telephone calls would have been made and targets would have disappeared. In the end we were forced to be flying from distant places like Kaduna and Kano in order to undertake operations in Zamfara.”

He also revealed that the President doesn't have the solution to all the problems the country is facing.

“All of us as citizens have a duty to the nation to provide information to our armed forces,” he said.