{"id":56731,"date":"2022-01-04T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T11:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai"},"modified":"2022-01-04T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T11:04:51","slug":"bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai","title":{"rendered":"Bandits: \u2018Forests should be carpet-bombed, trees replanted\u2019 \u2013 El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has shared his thoughts on what should be done to flush out bandits terrorizing people of the State.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai said security operatives should \u201ccarpet-bomb forests\u201d where bandits are located.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Arise Tv on Monday, the Governor said the trees around the affected forest can be replanted later, after the area has been bombed.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, admitted that carpet-bombing the forests would lead to collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai noted that such measure would boost Agriculture in the rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor said lack of manpower was responsible for the prolonged inability of security operatives to curb banditry in the northwest.<\/p>\n<p>According to El-Rufai: \u201cThese bandits operate in the periphery because their hiding place is in the forest. It\u2019s a major problem. The security agencies are doing their best but they are overstretched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is we don\u2019t have enough boots on ground to address the myriad of security challenges that we face, and these security challenges are asymmetric, widespread, and there\u2019s no part of Nigeria that doesn\u2019t have one security problem or the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRamp up the number of boots and more technology and more investment in armament and wipe these guys once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always believed that, you know, we should carpet-bomb the forests; we can replant the trees after. Let\u2019s carpet-bomb the forests and bomb all of them.\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. Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has shared his thoughts on what should be done to flush out bandits terrorizing people of the State. El-Rufai said security operatives should \u201ccarpet-bomb forests\u201d where bandits are located. Speaking on Arise Tv on Monday, the Governor said the trees around the affected forest can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,591,1651,254],"class_list":["post-56731","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-el-rufai-2","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>Bandits: \u2018Forests should be carpet-bombed, trees replanted\u2019 \u2013 El-Rufai - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has shared his thoughts on what should be done to flush out bandits terrorizing ...\" \/>\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\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bandits: \u2018Forests should be carpet-bombed, trees replanted\u2019 \u2013 El-Rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has shared his thoughts on what should be done to flush out bandits terrorizing ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-04T11:04:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-04T11:04:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61d429b6cfe85.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1097\" \/>\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\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bandits: \u2018Forests should be carpet-bombed, trees replanted\u2019 \u2013 El-Rufai\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-04T11:04:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-04T11:04:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61d429b6cfe85.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"bandits\",\"El Rufai\",\"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\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-forests-should-be-carpet-bombed-trees-replanted-el-rufai\",\"name\":\"Bandits: \u2018Forests should be carpet-bombed, trees replanted\u2019 \u2013 El-Rufai - 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