{"id":395119,"date":"2021-09-18T23:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T22:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=395119"},"modified":"2021-09-18T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T22:12:07","slug":"bandits-lost-human-rights-when-they-took-up-arms-against-nigeria-ndume-replies-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=395119","title":{"rendered":"Bandits lost human rights when they took up arms against Nigeria &#8211; Ndume replies activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Senate Committee Chairman on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has said bandits, terrorists and other criminals must not be spared in the onslaught by the military and other security agents.<\/p>\n<p>He said, terrorists, bandits and other criminal gangs, who are being bombarded across the northern part of the country, have lost their \u201chuman rights\u201d the moment they picked arms against the state and the people, cautioning those who warn security agents to be mindful of human rights of criminal not to \u201cplay the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial district maintained his position that terrorists should be wasted at a go once they are caught, while he lamented the huge casualties they have wreaked on innocent citizens in the past years.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ndume stated this when asked to speak on operations of the military in the Northwest and in other places with regards to human rights of criminal elements by journalists in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He chided those blaming the military for not being conscious of the human rights of bandits in their operations, stressing that in war there were bound to be casualties.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe are facing serious armed bandits and it affects all of us and when army stands to the occasion, the next thing you people start talking about is human rights, mass killing and others, so what do you want the military to do? Not to fight? Not to have casualties in the course of the fight?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the major problems in this country is the press. Instead of playing the angel, they play the devil. Why don\u2019t you play the angel? We are fighting this war and I don\u2019t know if you are from the North West and go there to see what these people have made life to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can identify bandits that have been killing people recklessly, we don\u2019t have to waste time to kill them. When we start talking about human rights, which right? What of the right of people that were killed, what of children that were killed and what of women that were raped and when the Nigerian Army stands to ambush them, then you start asking me about human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the military should go ahead killing them while the legislature would do all it can to provide the needed legislative backing for them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Committee Chairman on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has said bandits, terrorists and other criminals must not be spared in the onslaught by the military and other security agents. He said, terrorists, bandits and other criminal gangs, who are being bombarded across the northern part of the country, have lost their \u201chuman rights\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395120,"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":[3],"tags":[2658,8069,8404],"class_list":["post-395119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ali-ndume","tag-bandit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395119","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=395119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}