Garba Shehu Reveals What Is Making Terrorism Continue In Nigeria.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, has urged families of kidnapped victims to stop cooperating with the terrorists by paying the ransom, rather they should leave the rescue mission to the country’s law enforcement agencies.
Noting that the payment of ransom by families of kidnapped victims is fuelling terrorism in the country, Shehu, who spoke in an interview on Channels TV on Monday, submitted that kidnappings would continue until Nigerians stop paying ransoms and allow the security agents to do their job.
Shehu’s statement is coming after one of the family members of the seven abducted passengers of the Abuja- Kaduna train recently released, revealed that over N100 million was paid to terrorists for each before they were released.
Frowning at this, the media aide was quoted as saying: ” You’re mentioning all of these about kidnappers and the people that have been taken and the President even in his Sallah message mentioned an appeal he was making to fellow citizens to expose them (the criminals), tell the security agencies where they are and sometimes you also can sympathise with the family members in that highly emotive situation.
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” The first priority for most of them is to get their family back and they are willing to pay, and they’ve paid and these payments, whether anybody likes it or not, will continue to fuel terrorism, we have to learn from experiences in other lands that when you pay, you’re fuelling terrorism, you’re fuelling the hijack and kidnapping of fellow citizens and it will go on and on until simply people call off the bluff and be prepared to allow law enforcement.
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Garba Shehu Reveals What is Making Terrorism Continue In Nigeria.
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