Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), has claimed that politicians who lost in the last general elections are behind the kidnapping and Banditry in Nigeria.
The COAS also claimed that Nigeria army has authentic evidence to support what he said but that the momentum is still very alert.
Buratai also tell the politicians to put the national interest first and shun all other sentiments they may have with each other.
Channel TV, report that, Buratai said this Today Wednesday, May 15, as he paid a visit to the House of Representatives Committee at the military’s Headquarters of the Theatre Command Operation Lafiya in Maiduguri, Bornu state.
reports said that the committee was in Bornu state to lay wreaths for the fallen heroes of the army in Maiduguri.
He said “I want to believe and rightly so that what is going on in the northwest is a fall out of the just concluded general elections.
“There are several political interests; politicians in particular who lost in the election and because of their defeat, therefore they are trying to take revenge sponsoring some of those banditry activities and seeming conflicts between farmers and herders,
“We have some strong evidence, but we are still being conscious, but the best thing is to advise these politicians who are aggrieved for no just cause and are inflicting serious injury and discomfort to individuals and the country,”.
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