- The bandit leader tirade was contained in a video where he threatened the government for sending Service Chiefs to Sokoto State to fight his group.
Notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji has called the bluff of the Nigerian government over directive to security agencies to rid the country of armed non-state actors.
The wanted terrorists said he and his associates were not afraid of death.
Turji said he and his foot soldiers wouldn’t have turned to terrorism and taken up arms if they were scared of death.
The bandit leader tirade was contained in a video where he threatened the government for sending Service Chiefs to Sokoto State to fight his group.
In the video circulating online, Turji said: “If they were afraid of dying, we wouldn’t have taken up arms in the first place, stop sending Service Chiefs after us.”
A few days ago, videos had emerged online of Turji and his boys celebrating capturing two Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, MRAPs, belonging to the Nigerian Army.
But the Nigerian Defence Headquarters, DHQ, dismissed Turji’s claim of seizing the two MRAPs.
DHQ had said the two MRAPs were demobilized due to the inability of troops to extricate them after they got stuck in swampy terrain during operations against bandits in Zamfara State.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Defence, the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Christopher Musa and other top military officials arrived Sokoto State while declaring their readiness to lead a military onslaught against Turji and other bandits, criminals bedeviling the North West region
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