{"id":48872,"date":"2021-08-24T18:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=48872"},"modified":"2021-08-24T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:22:59","slug":"insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity: Deploy drones, missiles to kill bandits \u2013 El-Rufai tells Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has urged the Federal Government to deploy drones and missiles against bandits ravaging the Northern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai said the Federal Government should furnish troops with more sophisticated weapons against bandits.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja, the Governor said the Federal government should deploy a combination of air and ground forces against bandits in the North.<\/p>\n<p>According to El-Rufai: \u201cI think the security agencies also need more advanced technology. The Air force needs more drones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrones are much cheaper than planes, and there are drones now that can carry missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut drones can be more targeted, more selective and quiet. And drones can also fly in circumstances that airplanes cannot due to bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need the combination of airpower, and we need troops on the ground augmented by local expertise and knowledge. We need just one, two, three months of operation just to kill all these bandits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the only way to stop this. So the only option that we have is to ensure that we kill them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nnamdi Kanu, bandits: El-Rufai has failed, should be forced to resign \u2013 HURIWA boss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has urged the Federal Government to deploy drones and missiles against bandits ravaging the Northern part of the country. El-Rufai said the Federal Government should furnish troops with more sophisticated weapons against bandits. Speaking in Abuja, the Governor said the Federal government should deploy a combination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,591,97,1651,363,254],"class_list":["post-48872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-bandits","tag-buhari","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-insecurity","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Insecurity: Deploy drones, missiles to kill bandits \u2013 El-Rufai tells Buhari - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has urged the Federal Government to deploy drones and missiles against bandits r ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Insecurity: Deploy drones, missiles to kill bandits \u2013 El-Rufai tells Buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has urged the Federal Government to deploy drones and missiles against bandits r ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-24T17:39:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/img-61251cc5097db.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Insecurity: Deploy drones, missiles to kill bandits \u2013 El-Rufai tells Buhari\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-24T17:39:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari\"},\"wordCount\":203,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/img-61251cc5097db.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"bandits\",\"Buhari\",\"El Rufai\",\"insecurity\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-deploy-drones-missiles-to-kill-bandits-el-rufai-tells-buhari\",\"name\":\"Insecurity: Deploy drones, missiles to kill bandits \u2013 El-Rufai tells Buhari - 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