{"id":390612,"date":"2021-09-03T22:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=390612"},"modified":"2021-09-03T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T21:18:53","slug":"why-bandits-in-north-cant-seize-nigerias-tucano-fighter-jets-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=390612","title":{"rendered":"Why bandits in North can&#8217;t seize Nigeria&#8217;s Tucano fighter jets &#8211; Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A socio-political activist, Shehu Sani, has disclosed why bandits in the North can not seize the newly-purchased Tucano fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>Sani, who is a former Kaduna Central Senator said bandits in the North can not take over the Tucano jets because they are not Talibans.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the former lawmaker explained that bandits use motorcycles to achieve their targets.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, admitted that these bandits have shown some anti-aircraft capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sani: \u201cThe terrorists and bandits in our Northern part of Nigeria don\u2019t have the capacity to seize the newly purchased Tucano fighters, despite their show of anti aircraft capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey operate and achieve their goals riding on motorcycles with AK47. They are not Talibans for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bandits have been on the prowl in the Northern part of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>They have attacked schools, religious centres and most recently, the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the insecurity challenges, Nigeria recently took delivery of some Tucano fighter jets from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Nigeria paid around $462 million for twelve Tucanos and other additions. Six of the aircraft were built with Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) system.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful turboprops have Paveway II guided bombs, laser-guided rockets, 12.7 mm ammunition, unguided bombs and infrared sensors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A socio-political activist, Shehu Sani, has disclosed why bandits in the North can not seize the newly-purchased Tucano fighter jets. Sani, who is a former Kaduna Central Senator said bandits in the North can not take over the Tucano jets because they are not Talibans. In a tweet, the former lawmaker explained that bandits use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390613,"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":[2611,1524],"class_list":["post-390612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-bandits","tag-shehu-sani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390612","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=390612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/390613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}