Governor Nasir El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufia of Kaduna State has established a strong link between bandits terrorising the North West and the Boko Haram insurgents operating in the North East.
Governor El-Rufai, stated this on Sunday while featuring as a guest on a monitored Channels Television programme. It has been established that the kidnapping operations (by bandits) are substantially funding Boko Haram activities in the North East.
Boko Haram has no way of getting any money and some of them have slipped and joined the ranks of the bandits, and together they are doing this to raise a large amount of money that are being used to fund the intensified operations of Boko Haram,” he said.