Green Barge Reporters
Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai has suggested that forests in northern Nigeria should be carpet-bombed to end banditry in the region.Even though carpet-bombing will damage wildlife and forests in targeted areas, bt the governor said the possible damages can be rectified.“I have always believed that you know, we should carpet-bomb the forests; we can replant the trees after. Let’s carpet-bomb the forests and bomb all of them,” El-Rufai said in an interview with Arise TV.“There will be collateral damage, but it’s better to wipe them out and get people back to our communities so that agriculture and rural economics can pick up.”The Kaduna State governor, whose state and many others in the north have suffered banditry attacks – kidnapping, killing and displacement of residents – said that more investment in security personnel, technology and military equipment will see bandits wiped out “once and for all.”
El-Rufai attributed the prolonged inability of security operatives to curb banditry in the northwest region to a lack of unencouraging factors.He said the military and other security agencies “are doing their best but they are overstretched” and advised a more strategic approach to the fight against them.“These bandits operate in the periphery because their hiding place is in the forest. It’s a major problem…
