{"id":325687,"date":"2021-03-11T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=325687"},"modified":"2021-03-11T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T12:57:52","slug":"negotiating-with-bandits-will-depict-weakness-nigerian-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=325687","title":{"rendered":"Negotiating with bandits will depict weakness &#8211; Nigerian govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Federal Government has declared that there would be no form of negotiation with terrorists and bandits.<br \/>\nNational Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), said this during the weekly ministerial briefing at the State House in Abuja on Thursday.<br \/>\nMungono said the government would rather deploy all necessary forces to eliminate criminals.<br \/>\nHe noted that negotiating with the criminals and bandits would suggest weakness and incapacity on their part.<br \/>\nHe said the government would not succumb to blackmail and the use of criminals by proxies to harass innocent Nigerians.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile the government is not averse to talking, it must apply the necessary force because you can\u2019t trust these people.<br \/>\n\u201cGovernment wants to use military assets to eliminate them but if along the line, they come out, good. It depicts the picture of weakness, incapacity,\u201d Monguno added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has declared that there would be no form of negotiation with terrorists and bandits. National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), said this during the weekly ministerial briefing at the State House in Abuja on Thursday. Mungono said the government would rather deploy all necessary forces to eliminate criminals. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325688,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,10161,3761],"class_list":["post-325687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-babagana-mungono","tag-insecurity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325687","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=325687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}