Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has fired back at his predecessor, Nasir El-Rufai, urging him to stop politicising the sensitive issue of insecurity.
Speaking at the launch of Where I Stand, a book by the late Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi translated into Arabic, Governor Sani warned that insecurity cannot be resolved simply by the use of firearms.
El-Rufai had recently criticised Nigeria’s security strategy in a TV interview, dismissing non-kinetic measures as “nonsense” and accusing the Office of the National Security Adviser of paying ransoms to bandits. The former governor was quoted saying, “My position has always been that the only repentant bandit is a dead one. Let’s wipe them out, bomb them, reduce them to nothing.”
But Sani took a different position. He argued that poverty, unemployment, and the neglect of rural communities were the real root causes of banditry.
“Insecurity can’t be resolved solely through the use of firearms. Whoever makes such a claim is only playing politics. We must fear God and stop deceiving the people because that approach will not work,” the Kaduna governor said firmly.
