Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information andStrategy, Bayo Onanuga, has stated reasons Nigerian military was quick totackle unrest in Benin Republic but cannot do same to solve insecurityconfronting Nigeria for years. Speaking in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme onArise Television on Monday, Onanuga said bandits andterrorists hold innocent Nigerians as shield, stressing that fighting them isnot the same way with fighting a conventional army. He said most of the time, the bandits and terrorists kidnapsoft targets, adding that there should be utmost care not to bomb those theyare holding as collateral.“I think it’s a different ball game altogether. The internalone is more of a symmetric war. I think our military people have been sayingthat, but people don’t seem to understand what it was talking about. “Look at the case of Benin Republic now. They wanted to bomba military base in Benin. They know where to where to go. They coordinatedwhere they should actually bomb, which is what they did. “Unlike those people the bandits and terrorists are holdingup as shield. They are always kidnapping soft targets and so on. You have to bevery careful not to go and bomb those they are holding as collaterals. “These are like a gorilla. Even the almighty Americacouldn’t find gorillas in Afghanistan as well. It’s not easy. “It’s not an easy war, but I think the country is poised tofind a way around it to make sure that all this banditry and terrorism will endin a very short time,” he said.
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