{"id":53468,"date":"2021-11-16T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=53468"},"modified":"2021-11-16T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:03:21","slug":"bandits-are-living-in-fools-paradise-buhari-reacts-to-killing-of-15-people-in-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-are-living-in-fools-paradise-buhari-reacts-to-killing-of-15-people-in-sokoto","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bandits are living in fool\u2019s paradise\u2019 \u2013 Buhari reacts to killing of 15 people in Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest massacre of 15 people in Goronyo and Illela local government areas of Sokoto, warning that \u201cthis needless and mindless violence against innocent people cannot go unpunished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the incident from South Africa through his media aide, Garba Shehu, President Buhari warned that:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis persistent and unprovoked violence against unarmed civilians must be met with a fierce response by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me once again, reassure Nigerians, that this administration will not abandon them to their fate in the face of this existential challenge caused by banditry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the President, \u201cWe are taking delivery of military equipment to improve the capacity of our security forces to effectively deal with this issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur military is also deploying advanced technology to enhance surveillance and related operations to locate and crush these criminals and enemies of our common humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration will not tolerate this state of affairs where criminals deprive the people of their means of livelihood and turn them into beggars and refugees. The bandits are living in a fool\u2019s paradise if they believe that they can\u2019t be crushed. The criminals cannot be lucky always; they will ultimately meet their Waterloo. Evil cannot triumph over good no matter how long it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest massacre of 15 people in Goronyo and Illela local government areas of Sokoto, warning that \u201cthis needless and mindless violence against innocent people cannot go unpunished.\u201d Reacting to the incident from South Africa through his media aide, Garba Shehu, President Buhari warned that: \u201cThis persistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":53467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,254,462],"class_list":["post-53468","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-buhari","tag-nigeria","tag-sokoto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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