Zamfara Killings: Buhari Working to Crush Insurgents – APC

Amidst outrage over Zamfara killings, the ruling All Progressives Congress on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is working hard to crush insurgents.
This was the position by the National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, in a statement issued on Monday.
He was reacting to the recent killings in Zamfara by bandits.
NPO had reported the killings of villagers in the state by insurgents suspected to be fleeing from military operations.
The APC scribe, while condemning the development, said the party was deeply pained by the killings of innocent Nigerians in their villages in Zamfara by criminal gangs also known as bandits.
He, however, noted that despite the development, the Buhari government had been steadfast in retooling the Armed Forces.
“The government has been steadfast in retooling the Armed Forces, recruitment of personnel and intensified training to enhance their operational capacity in safe guarding public safety and the territorial integrity of the country.
“We assure Nigerians that banditry and insurgency will be crushed.
“Indeed, the recent designation of these satanic, evil and criminal elements as terrorist groups will further buoy our security services to deal with them as such and ultimately contain their nefarious activities in the country,’’ he said.
Akpanudoedehe condoled with the families that lost loved ones and commiserated with the government and people of Zamfara, adding that the killings in the state and elsewhere in the country would not go unpunished.
He commended the military and other security services whose concerted onslaught on the camps of the criminals was ensuring the rescue of kidnapped citizens and neutralising the criminal elements.
He said already, the terrorists, formerly bandits, were now fleeing as troop’s clearance operations had forced their dislodgement from their enclaves.
He urged Nigerians to watch out and report any suspicious movement within their environment to appropriate authorities.