Ex-minister to Tinubu: Negotiate with bandits, give them promising future

Adebayo Shittu, a former Minister of Communication, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to negotiate with bandits and give them a promising future.

“If I am in position, it is not too late to use non-kinetic measures in negotiating with bandits, giving them a promising future. Let us retain them.

“Many of them are very intelligent, many of them are able-bodied,” Shittu said.

Featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, the former minister noted that most of the bandits were able-bodied men whom the Federal Government should retain.

He said non-kinetic approach in dealing with banditry would bring about a lot of results.

The ex-minister said the millions of out-of-school children in Northern Nigeria is a “production factory for banditry” in the country.

An Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, had urged the Federal Government to negotiate with bandits.