By Khalifa Najeeb

As the war against terrorism and banditry gets intense, recent revelations are testaments that the kinetic, non kinetic and steady attack approaches of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu’s administration in dealing with Bandits especially in the Northwest zone of Nigeria seem to be hitting targets.

Matching words with action, the Defence Minister (state), Bello Matawalle’s drastic approach to giving banditry and terrorism no breathing space with the help of the ever resilient officers and men of the Nigeria Armed forces has really hit hard on terrorists and their financiers hence their recent resolve attack the personality of the Honourable minister of state for defence.

Every sensible mind can deduce that the Notorious Bandit Kingpin; Turji Bello is seriously pained having not being given any breathing space by the Nigeria defence formation to commit heinous crimes lately, reason he has turned to be a tool for character assassination in the hands of some opposition party chieftains in Northwest who are threatened by the force at which President Tinubu’s administration is tackling insecurity menace in the region.

The fracas that took place hours ago between Turji and some of his lieutenants was caused by disagreement that came up over sharing formular.

Again, one will wonder if the Bello Matawalle he mentioned has any business welcoming any Bandit into any of the state government houses in the Northwest when he is no longer a sitting Governor as only the gullible minded can believe such a poorly presented script as dramatised by Turji and his co-travellers in the video making rounds.

In secret, members of opposition parties in the North, who are fervently opposed to the President Tinubu’s government have attested that Matawalle and 2 others are the unapologetic Renewed Hope generals must be cut to size for their party (opposition) to have a breathing space instead next general election.

Najeeb writes from Abuja