A former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has attributed the high rate of banditry in the country to members of Boko Haram.
Amachree said that bandits had confessed that some of them were Boko Haram fighters.
He reportedly made the disclosure when he featured on an Arise TV programme on Saturday, February 27.
Amachree said: “From investigations, we have even discovered that some of them were Boko Haram fighters.
“Some of them have confessed to having fought with Boko Haram. And now, you have these people infiltrating, collecting money for ransoms, raping women, and sending them back to Boko Haram.”
Further, he disagreed with people comparing bandits to militants in the Niger Delta, arguing that the two scenarios are totally different.
He said: “What happened in the Niger Delta is totally different from what we are experiencing now. In the Niger Delta, people were protesting for the pollution of their environment. And because of that, they said ‘if you are taking the oil and we are not going to benefit from it’, then they started blowing up oil installations.”
Amachree added that while leaders of militants are known, some of the bandits are foreigners who want to live on their own terms in Nigeria.
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