Bishop Matthew Kukah is canvassing the questioning of persons who claim close ties with bandits and wants the Federal Government to be decisive in dealing with insecurity ravaging the northern regions of the country.
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto said this in an interview with Channels Television on the sidelines of a function in Rivers State.
He questioned the Federal Government’s lack of interrogation of individuals claiming close ties with bandits.
“It is clear that the Federal Government at the highest level knows what is going on, at least the intelligence community has an idea,” the clergyman said on Tuesday.
“There are key Nigerians who are saying openly that they know more than they think the rest of us know, and I think that it is the business of the Federal Government to find out those who claim to know where the bandits are, those who are collaborating with the bandit.”
His comment came about a day after 137 schoolchildren abducted in Kuriga, Kaduna State, regained freedom from their captors.
While their freedom has been celebrated, Bishop Kukah is concerned with the spate of school kidnappings and is worried about the psychological of such abductions on the children.
He wants more collaborations between security agencies and individuals with knowledge of the situation, re-echoing the government’s capability to apprehend perpetrators of such crimes.
