{"id":322978,"date":"2021-03-04T22:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=322978"},"modified":"2021-03-04T22:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:14:06","slug":"nigerians-fault-buharis-order-to-shoot-civilians-with-ak-47-say-igboho-other-southern-defenders-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=322978","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Fault Buhari\u2019s Order To Shoot Civilians With AK-47, Say Igboho, Other Southern Defenders Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nigerians have reacted to the order given by President Muhammadu Buhari, directing security agencies to shoot anyone seen with AK-47 on sight.
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\nThe presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday.
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\nHe said the President has embarked on a crackdown on bandits who have refused to surrender.
\n \u201cThe president has ordered security forces to go into the bushes and shoot whoever they see with sophisticated weapons like AK-47,\u201d Shehu said.
\n\u201cHe ordered that whoever is seen with terrible weapons at all should be shot immediately.\u201d
\nIn reaction to this directive, many Nigerians flooded Facebook with comments, with some saying the President had finally woken up after things had gone bad.
\nOthers alleged that the order was sentimentally aimed at the Southerners like Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, who have resolved to be defending themselves after enduring years of atrocities allegedly committed by killer Fulani herders.
\nIgboho had earlier this year given Fulani herdsmen in the Ibarapa area, Oyo State seven days to leave the area, blaming them and their leaders for killings and kidnappings there.
\nLast week, there was a failed attempt to arrest Igboho along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, while on his way to Lagos to attend a meeting.
\nFor instance, on Facebook, Okwuchukwu Nwaobi said, \u201cIs it because the husband has denied his wife? He has finally been sold in the market. Other tribes have started using AK47, presidency now bans AK47 as if they’re the ones manufacturing it. For decades people were complaining of Fulani herdsmen terrorising farmers, presidency kept deaf ears. My advice to everybody is, if you can afford one, buy, days are evil.\u201d
\n\u201cYou are so predictable,\u201d said Arthur Ceecee Nwachukwu. \u201cGuns are no longer only in Fulani people\u2019s hands, now you want innocent Nigerians defending themselves to be shot, God will judge those people making decisions on your behalf.\u201d
\n\u201cGiving order after the damage had been done. The government is culpable in the whole mess and that is why they allowed it to fester too much,\u201d Taiwo Lukman reacted.
\nOlalekan Fanda said, \u201cSee order o, simply because Igboho said everybody in the South should go and get guns too. There’s no how this country called Nigeria can survive; it’s too late.\u201d
\nSulaimanLawal said, \u201cYour words mean nothing as your words do not command respect again. Watch how security personnel will still protect the herdsmen.\u201d
\n\u201cThe problem is that we don’t follow rule of law,\u201d Samuel D. Wodi commented. \u201cFrom the criminal to the President is the same. It is not the function of the President to give such an order. There must be a law in Nigeria against the illegal possession of guns. Let the law enforcement agents and the court do their work properly. A president cannot just give the order to kill anybody with a gun. That is madness. It shouldn’t be like that. We have to wise up and be civilised. The situation is out of hand because the police and courts don’t do their work properly. It is also time to let each state have its own Police. Probably they will function better when they are under the watch of state governments.\u201d
\n\u201cWhy can’t he come out and address the nation, if the directives come directly from him and broadcast on all the national radio and TV channels?\u201d Vic Clara Adeniyi questioned. \u201cThen people like our honourable Cleric Gumi will not come on social media and accuse the Southerners of shooting the bandits or Boko Haram or Fulani herdsmen.\u201d
\nBernard Anetor said, \u201cNonsense! A dead man can’t respond talkless giving order to the living. Wake up people and stop being fooled into thinking there is a President in the Aso Rock.\u201d
\nHowever, some Nigerians lauded the President\u2019s directive, describing it as a good one capable of curbing insecurity in the country.
\nShamsuddeen Abdulmajid Daura said, \u201cThe last time President Muhammadu Buhari gave a similar matching order was during the 2019 elections against ballot box snatchers. And, immediately after that order, most would-be snatchers were nowhere to be found. Hopefully, this recent order will eventually yield a lasting solution to this criminality bedevilling the northern part of the country.\u201d
\n \u201cThis is a very welcome directive that should be extended to all parts of the country. No one is allowed by law whatsoever to bear arms. However, security agents must ensure that only culprits are targeted. Very welcome directive once again,\u201d Nwabundu Jude Osondu said.
\n\u201cI don’t know your problems with this order,\u201d Kabir MK Yola told Buhari\u2019s critics. \u201cYou said Fulani are using AK47s to kill people and that the President folds his hands and does nothing. Now, he gave a direct order to shoot anyone with AK47 on sight, you are saying ‘no’. Your hypocrisy will take you to the afterlife.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Nigerians have reacted to the order given by President Muhammadu Buhari, directing security agencies to shoot anyone seen with AK-47 on sight. The presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday. He said the President has embarked on a crackdown on bandits who have refused to surrender. \u201cThe president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2611,41],"class_list":["post-322978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-bandits","tag-buhari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}