Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu has pointed hands towards some traditional rulers in Katsina the home state of the President and Zamfara of aiding bandits in their attacks against their own people. 
Garba Shehu said of whatever rotten system that exist and resist change know that there are always beneficiaries, the Media aide of the President made this allegation while on Channels Television’s “Sunrise Daily” on Monday, June 15.
He accused the traditional rulers of helping bandits to escape when security agencies are planning counter-attacks and of leaking information to bandits.
Garba Shehu said;
“It is not that we are making direct accusations on anyone but it is also true that even in the president’s native state of Katsina, some traditional rulers have been found complicit in collaboration with the bandits to harm their own people.
“In neighbouring Zamfara, emirs and district heads, quite a number of them have been swept out of office. The thing is there are beneficiaries of whatever rotten system you have.
“At some point, the Nigerian Air Force had to put a number of aircraft in Katsina, they are still there. In the early part of that operation attacking Zamfara which then was the epicentre.
“They realised that once aircraft took off from Katsina airport, before it got to Zamfara for operation, telephone calls would have been made and targets would have disappeared. In the end we were forced to be flying from distant places like Kaduna and Kano in order to undertake operations in Zamfara.
“All of us as citizens have a duty to the nation to provide information to our armed forces.”
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