The federal government has described as “erroneous” the allegation it is treating bandits with leniency.
Few days ago, Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), had accused the federal government of treating bandits with kid gloves.
Speaking on Tuesday when he featured on ‘Good Morning Nigeria’, a programme of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture disagreed with Falana, saying the same treatments are meted out to both bandits and terrorists.
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The minister said: “I think we have been dancing around nomenclature. A criminal is a criminal, whether it is a bandit or terrorist, and the same measure is being meted out to them,”
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“That is why we find it ridiculous, the accusation that the federal government is softer on bandits than the separatists and other criminals.
“This is a fallacy; fake news and misinformation all into one. And this is the kind of divisive rhetoric being promoted by some naysayers.”