The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has stated that bandits and terrorists must be defeated and must never be allowed to have their way in the country.
The Sokoto monarch said this while receiving the Chief of Army Staff, General Faruk Yahya, who paid him Sallah homage on Tuesday, May 3. Bandits, he said, are total terrorists who must be eliminated.
He went on to say that the challenges are putting security personnel to the test.
The Sultan said;
“We will never allow terrorists to have their ways. The more we strategize to defeat them the better for all of us.
“Like what Mr President day on Sallah day, I too believe we are bringing this to an end”
The Chief of Army Staff on his own part, promised to get Bello Turji and other bandits terrorising the northwestern part of Nigeria.
On Tuesday, May 3, he stated that there will be no safe haven for terrorists in the country during his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony of the forward operation base in Isa local government area of Sokoto state.
Faruk, who revealed that the purpose of establishing the base was to reduce the distance between bandits’ dens, stated that more feet, equipment, and other enablers would be deployed to the base.
He said;
“We will reach to where they are hiding, defeat them and recover their weapons.
“We know how important Isa is to our operation. It holds a strategic position in our operation. We are establishing forward base in important places in our effort to improve the reach to bandits, terrorists and other criminals, defeat them and recover their weapons”