El-Rufai: “We know where they are. The SSS have their phone numbers, they listen to them… Why can’t we go after them?”
Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-rufai, has expressed sadness and frustration over the recent train attack by terrorists, saying he is helpless because the Armed Forces of Nigeria know the locations of the terrorists but have refused to bomb their hideouts.
El-Rufai said on Wednesday that “we know what they (terrorists) are planning. We get the reports. The problem is for the agencies to take action. Don’t wait until they attack before you respond. The Army should go after their enclaves to wipe them out. Let the Air Force bomb them.”
“Before, they were categorised as bandits and if you bombed them, you would have issues with human rights organisations and international criminal courts and so on. But, now that they have been declared terrorists by the court, they can be legally killed without any consequences from international human rights organisations.”
Declaring that Kaduna is currently in a ‘State of War,’ the Governor stated: “We know where their camps are. We know where they are. The SSS have their phone numbers. They listen to them, and they give me the report. We know what they are planning. We shouldn’t be waiting for them to attack. Why can’t we go after them?”
