Former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has shared an experience he had with a bandit he encountered on TikTok a while back.
Speaking in an interview with News Central, Dalung stated that he asked the bandit why they were killing people, and he replied that vigilantes also killed them and took their cattle.
According to the former minister, the bandit claimed that this made them take up arms and decide to stay in the bush.
He said, ‘’I was on TikTok one day and a young bandit, trained in the bush. He said he is a bandit in the bush. Then I asked him; why do you k!ll people?’ and he said ‘’well, they were also k!lled and their cattles taken away by the vigilantes and so they took up arms and are in the bush.
“And I said ‘But you kill also kill fulanis like you and rustle their cows’ and he told me ‘’look, the only Fulanis they know are the ones in the bush. Anyone that is in the town is not a fulani’ If they see them, they will kill them.’’
Dalung said he asked how to stop this trend of attacking and maiming people. He said the bandit responded saying they are up for negotiations for them to drop their weapons.
‘’The confidence he was talking with was quite scary,” Dalung said.
He called on the National Assembly to amend the constitution so Nigerians can bear arms to protect themselves.
