President Muhammadu Buhari has blasted the recent attacks on farmers by bandits in Damkar and Tsanwa villages in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Buhari revealed this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja today.
According to PMB, nobody in Nigeria has the right to take laws into his hands and murdering people in the name of revenge will never be acceptable under his watch.
He added that local communities that capture bandits should simply hand over the suspects to law enforcement authorities rather than dishing out capital punishment.
His words, “No one in the country has a right to take laws into his hands by the way of self-help or revenge and killing people in the name of revenge is not acceptable”.
”Local communities that catch bandits should hand over the suspects to law enforcement authorities instead of meting out capital punishment, leading to a cycle of revenge and counter revenge.”
“The authorities must be allowed to investigate and deal with any breach that occurs. There is no place for violence in a decent society.”