President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to issue shoot-at-sight order on anyone carrying Ak-47 riffle by himself and not through his aide.
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu gave the advice to Buhari when he spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Thursday.
FirstNews had reported Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, during an interview with the BBC Hausa quoting Buhari as issuing as ordering security forces to go into the bush and shoot bandits carrying AK-47.
But Elumelu reacting to that said during the programme, “The statement credited to the media aide to Mr President is a welcome development but I would have preferred that Mr President himself made that broadcast.”
He also wondered why the President has apparently continued to shy away from condemning the activities of criminal Fulani herdsmen across the country.
“One, condemning the activities of the herdsmen, he has not said it. I will like him to outrightly condemn the activities of the herdsmen, they are everywhere, messing up all the communities, attacking people.
“There are some people that are very fanatical about him and they will want to hear him speak. Shehu, his media aide, making that statement is not the same thing as Mr President making that statement. I will like to hear Mr President making that statement himself and giving that directive that anybody caught with arms, not even AK-47 alone, any form of arm that is not a member of the security agencies should be shot at sight,” the Reps Majority Leader said.