Your Excellency, BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.

Friday Lines (79) With

Dr Abubakar Alkali

19/9/25

Bandits and terrorists DO NOT deserve AMNESTY. They should be crushed the way they crush innocent farmers and other citizens.

‘Any President, state governor or public office holder for that matter who grants any form of AMNESTY or negotiates or gives any form of soft landing to killer-bandits and terrorists who kill innocent people has BLOOD ON HIS HANDS which he will carry to his GRAVE and explain to his CREATOR’

Qur’an Baqarah 2:178
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْقِصَاصُ فِى ٱلْقَتْلَى ۖ ٱلْحُرُّ بِٱلْحُرِّ وَٱلْعَبْدُ بِٱلْعَبْدِ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰ بِٱلْأُنثَىٰ ۚ فَمَنْ عُفِىَ لَهُۥ مِنْ أَخِيهِ شَىْءٌۭ فَٱتِّبَاعٌۢ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَأَدَآءٌ إِلَيْهِ بِإِحْسَـٰنٍۢ ۗ ذَٰلِكَ تَخْفِيفٌۭ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَرَحْمَةٌۭ ۗ فَمَنِ ٱعْتَدَىٰ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فَلَهُۥ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ ١٧٨

‘*_O believers! ˹The law of˺ retaliation is set for you in cases of murder—a free man for a free man, a slave for a slave, and a female for a female. But if the offender is pardoned by the victim’s guardian, then blood-money should be decided fairly and payment should be made courteously. This is a concession and a mercy from your Lord. But whoever transgresses after that will suffer a painful punishment’_*

THE ISLAMIC LAW OF QISAS (Whoever kills should be killed).
No amnesty for killer-bandits and terrorists by the state or federal governments will succeed because Allah (SWT) says in the holy Quran in Surah Baqarah Verse 178 that anybody who kills intentionally should be killed under the law of Qisas or retributive justice.
Why should state governors pardon bandits and terrorists who kill the innocent? Where do these governors derive such powers?

In Islam under the law of Qisas, only the family of the victim can pardon the killer and even in such cases, the killer must pay blood-money (Diyya).

A state governor has no powers to pardon bandits who kill innocent people. In Islam, only the family of the victim can pardon the killer. 

The question to ask Northern Governors who grant amnesty to bandits and terrorists is ‘What about the innocent people killed by these bandits and terrorists? What about those raped and displaced by these bandits? Don’t these innocent victims deserve justice?

How could a killer bandit be entitled to justice while his victim is not entitled to any justice?

The government has failed to protect its citizens as enshrined in section 14(2)(b) of the constitution, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

During elections, a Governor goes to campaign and solicits for votes from a particular community. When he gets to office he pardons the bandits that have killed the same people who gave him their votes and voted him into office. This is incomprehensible!

_What is Amnesty_?
‘Amnesty for bandits and terrorists is a model of corruption designed by politicians who are working in cahoots with bandits and terrorists for the 2027 election on a quid pro quo basis’

Yes, write it down, politicians in Katsina and other states which entered into a so-called ‘peace deal’ such as Kaduna will use the bandits and terrorists to rig the 2027 elections in their respective states.

_Bandits, Where are your AK-47s after Amnesty?_
It is preposterous that a bandit will walk home with all his deadly weapons after a so-called ‘peace meeting’ during which he claimed to have renounced kidnapping, terrorism and violence. If indeed the bandits are serious about renouncing violence, they should surrender all their weapons and these weapons should be set ablaze in public.

Amnesty will only embolden the bandits and give them time to re-strategise. Government pays money to bandits after each so-called ‘peace deal’ which the bandits use to buy more weapons.

__The Katsina state government cannot select Fulani settlements and build schools for them while other communities in the state lack such facilities __
The Katsina state government will be playing into the hands of the Fulani bandits if they selectively build any schools or hospitals for them. Building schools and hospitals or roads will NEVER stop the scourge of kidnapping and banditry.
When will the Katsina state government build schools for Hausa communities in Jibia and Faskari localities? Is it after these communities have also procured weapons and kidnap innocent victims akin to what the Fulani are doing?

_A Lie from the Pit of Hell_
It is a big lie and an untenable reason that the Fulani bandits are into terrorism because they have been neglected by the government and that they are killing innocent people because they don’t have schools and hospitals. This is a lie from the pit of hell.
The question to ask here is ‘How many communities in Katsina, Zamfara and other states have been neglected by the government? Thousands of communities in Katsina state have no schools or hospitals.

On 19th August 2025 at Gidan Mantau, Malumfashi local government area Katsina state, bandits set ablaze over 50 worshipers and burned them alive. The Gidan Mantau community has no road or school or hospital but they didn’t take up arms and start kidnapping and killing people.
Have other neglected communities resorted to acquiring weapons, kidnapping and killing innocent people? NO.
Why didn’t everybody who was neglected by the government resort to kidnapping as the Fulani have done?

_The Solution_ 
The only solution is FULL MILITARY FORCE to crush these bandits and terrorists. That’s the ONLY option.
Only a GROUND WAR (FACE-TO-FACE combat) can crush the bandits once-and-for-all.

The Nigerian military should use the same strategy it deployed to defeat the Biafra secessionists during the civil war 1967-1970 to crush the bandits. The earlier the better before the bandits overwhelm the Southern part of Nigeria particularly Lagos state where there are better potentials for mega ransom payments.
The bandits have started ‘the domination of Southern Nigeria’ project with Kwara State (the gateway state between the North and South) where they are now in control of several communities.