Wike To FG: Don’t Discriminate — Go After Bandits Like You Did For Nnamdi Kanu

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, has asked the federal
government to go after the bandits and other figures causing
trouble in several parts of the country like it did for Nnamdi
Kanu.

Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra
(IPOB), was arrested and extradited to the country on Sunday after
almost four years in self-exile.

Recall how he was lured to a location in an African country with
a promise of cash donations in millions of dollars and then
arrested.

Wike asked the government to extend the same attention it has
given to Kanu to bandits and other elements creating security
challenges in the country.

He said this while speaking with Arise TV on Thursday.

The governor said though he rejects the methods of Kanu, the
authorities must avoid punishing the IPOB leader extra-judicially
because he comes from a certain part of the country.

“Let people know that you’re not prosecuting him because he
comes from a particular section of the country. You must also make
provision to say all these people who have been causing security
crises in Nigeria are also prosecuted,” he said.

“Let’s not make a hullabaloo about the prosecution of Nnamdi
Kanu. I don’t believe in his principles. I’ve come out, and I’ve
said that you cannot annex my state to be part of your own. But
that doesn’t mean that you’ll not allow the law to take its
cause.

“The same way that you have arrested Nnamdi Kanu should also be
the same way that all others who you have known should be brought
to book to face the wrath of the law. You cannot discriminate. You
cannot say because Nnamdi Kanu is from a particular area, let us do
this. The same principle must be applied to the bandits, Miyetti
Allah and others.”

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, has asked the federal
government to go after the bandits and other figures causing
trouble in several parts of the country like it did for Nnamdi
Kanu.

Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra
(IPOB), was arrested and extradited to the country on Sunday after
almost four years in self-exile.

Recall how he was lured to a location in an African country with
a promise of cash donations in millions of dollars and then
arrested.

Wike asked the government to extend the same attention it has
given to Kanu to bandits and other elements creating security
challenges in the country.

He said this while speaking with Arise TV on Thursday.

The governor said though he rejects the methods of Kanu, the
authorities must avoid punishing the IPOB leader extra-judicially
because he comes from a certain part of the country.

“Let people know that you’re not prosecuting him because he
comes from a particular section of the country. You must also make
provision to say all these people who have been causing security
crises in Nigeria are also prosecuted,” he said.

“Let’s not make a hullabaloo about the prosecution of Nnamdi
Kanu. I don’t believe in his principles. I’ve come out, and I’ve
said that you cannot annex my state to be part of your own. But
that doesn’t mean that you’ll not allow the law to take its
cause.

“The same way that you have arrested Nnamdi Kanu should also be
the same way that all others who you have known should be brought
to book to face the wrath of the law. You cannot discriminate. You
cannot say because Nnamdi Kanu is from a particular area, let us do
this. The same principle must be applied to the bandits, Miyetti
Allah and others.”