‘How to end terrorism, banditry in Nigeria’ – Ex-Army spokesman

Former Director of Army Public Relations, Sani Usman, has called on the Nigerian government to adopt the use of technology to wage war against terrorism and banditry in the country.

Usman made this call when he appeared as a guest in an interview on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television.

He was speaking on the role of intelligence in counter-terrorism operations in Nigeria.

According to him: “All the leadership of the banditry and the kingpins of terrorists, if you look at their history, they have exhibited some form of violent extremism right from the beginning, or they have this tendency of criminality over time, and the system was unable to check them too.

“Technology helps in the sense that even if a criminal has a tendency of committing crime, the system will eventually catch up with him.

“And somehow people will have a second thought because you know that you can’t hide; there is a limit to which you can hide because you can’t go far.”