Ministers, governors may become bandits’ next targets – Buratai

Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), has warned that Nigeria’s increasing insecurity could soon enactment elder authorities officials, including ministers, senators and governors, astatine hazard if urgent enactment is not taken.

Buratai made the connection connected Sunday portion reacting to reports that retired Major General Abubakar Rabe was killed by bandits.

He described the sidesplitting of a elder subject serviceman arsenic a superior information concern, saying it shows that transgression groups are becoming much daring.

“If this inclination continues unchecked, the adjacent targets whitethorn not beryllium soldiers oregon civilians alone. They could see ministers, senators, and adjacent authorities governors. No person volition beryllium immune,” Buratai said.

The erstwhile service main said the incidental should service arsenic a informing to the country, noting that insecurity continues to worsen contempt repeated concerns raised by information experts.

He recalled informing successful 2021 that insurgency and banditry could proceed for galore years if decisive enactment was not taken.

“Today, our federation is witnessing the grim unfolding of that prediction. The capture, torture and eventual sidesplitting of a elder subject officer, Major General Rabe Abubakar, is not simply a tragedy; it marks a unsafe threshold,” helium stated.

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