Tiv youths under the umbrella of its socio-cultural organization, Tiv Youth Organisation (TYO), Abuja chapter has condemned recent call on the federal government to give amnesty to bandits, terrorists and armed herdsmen wreaking havoc in the country.
The group in a statement by its president, Joseph Saater Undu advised that security operatives should be directed to “clampdown on all identified security threats and neutralize them to give the citizens a new lease of life.”
“I call on the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu through the national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to direct the security chiefs to clampdown on all identified security threats and neutralize them to give the citizens a new lease of life. This is achievable if the government is sincere and willing to end insecurity in the country.
“All arrested suspects should be charged to court to answer for their crimes against innocent Nigerians. As a matter of fact, we call on the president and the National Assembly to establish special courts for the speedy trials of suspects arrested for terrorism, banditry and kidnapping,” he said.
Chief Undu noted that the widespread insecurity ravaging the country, especially in North Central and other regions being orchestrated by marauding armed herdsmen, bandits and kidnappers, is the major factor behind the current food crisis in Nigeria.
He said, “It is also a security threat to our urban centers. The rural-urban migration we witness daily in our cities today is alarming. The mass exodus of thousands of unskilled and unemployable young men who are mostly farmers to the urban centers because of rampaging bandits, terrorists and Herdsmen in their communities is the cause of rising security incidences in our cities and towns.
“We can stop this by stopping attacks on their communities. We can stop this by making their communities and farms safe. We can also stop this by making subsistence farming attractive and profitable.”
Undu said the President does not need the military and other non-state actors to completely eradicating all forms of security threats in Nigeria, “he only needs the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Department of State Services (DSS) to root out all criminals, terrorists and bandits across Nigeria in one month, if he has the political will.”
