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Why Federal Government hasn’t declared bandits as terrorists after court order – Malami

by Chinecherem Ejiogu
6 months ago
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Why Federal Government hasn’t declared bandits as terrorists after court order – Malami
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Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has revealed why the Federal Government is yet to officially designate bandits as terrorists.

Recall that Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on November 26, 2021, had granted an ex parte application by the Federal Government for gunmen and bandits to be declared as terrorists.

However, the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has not done so over a month after.

Speaking about this in an interview on NTA Good Morning Nigeria Show, Malami revealed that the Federal Government is yet to officially designate bandits as terrorists because the government is following international best practices.

According to him, his office was in the process of gazetting a court judgement that ordered the government to declare bandits as terrorists and the process would be concluded in a matter of days.

He also revealed that the government acted swiftly in declaring IPOB and Boko Haram as terror groups because of the “threats to lives and properties they have caused in the nation.”

In his words;

 “Government has a responsibility to act but within the context of acting, you equally expected to operate within the confines of international best practices associated with engagement and one of such best practices is that you can only use maximum force on groups, individuals that are declared terrorists and that is where the application of the Terrorism Act comes in place.

“With that in mind, Nigeria acted, first by proscribing IPOB, taking into consideration the threats to lives and properties they have caused in the nation. Boko Haram was proscribed.”

Going further, the AGF noted that the “good results” arising from outlawing IPOB and Boko Haram buoyed the government to consider the proscription of bandits, and the use of military hardware against the marauders.

He said;

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 “Now, we are confronted with another threat in the North-West associated with banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling and in all these, these people are using weapons to attack Nigerians, kidnap them and created a situation of serious security challenge and fear in the system.

“Whatever military hardware you acquire there are limits within the context of the international convention as to how it can be used, when it can be used and against who it can be used. And that is how the idea of looking at the activities of the bandits, cattle rustlers, kidnappers come into being.

“Our assessment taking into consideration that they are causing a major threat to the territorial peaceful co-existence and causing a major threat to lives with weapons, the idea then came about that indeed they (bandits) have satisfied the criteria of being declared terrorists within the context of the law

so that whatever military hardware at the disposal of the Federal Government can best be used against them within the context of the international convention and within the context of the law.”

Speaking on why his office has not gazetted the court order designating bandits as terrorists, the senior advocate said;

 “The gazetting of a court order or judgement is a process but what matters fundamentally within the context of international convention is the judicial declaration and that has been obtained; the court has declared bandits, kidnappers, cattle rustlers as terrorists.

“So, with or without the gazette, what gives effect to such declaration is a judicial pronouncement but the gazette is a mere formality and it has been on and I believe within a matter of days, it will be concluded.”

Credit: PUNCH

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