Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, has called on the Federal Government to declare bandits as terrorists to allow the Nigerian military deal with them according to international law.
This came as no fewer than 343 persons were killed from July to September 2021 in Kaduna State, while 830 others were kidnapped.
The governor spoke at the presentation of the Kaduna State Security Incidents Report for the Third Quarter of 2021 in Kaduna.
The governor also called for a consensus between the Federal Government and the 36 states on an emergency programme of recruitment into the security agencies.
He said government could change the game significantly by hiring 1,000 willing youths from each of the 774 Local Government Areas, in the country into the security agencies.
