A former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, on Thursday urged the government to allow citizens of Kaduna carry weapons to fight the terrorists.
Senator Sani insisted that in a situation where the government and security agencies have failed to defeat the terrorists, the people should be allowed to carry weapons to face them.
The Quest Times had reported how terrorists on Monday night bombed the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks and attacked a train filled with passengers.
Subsequently, the Nigerian Railway Corporation on Tuesday also announced the suspension of train operations along the Abuja-Kaduna route indefinitely following the attacks.
The train attack was coming after terrorists, numbering over 200, on Saturday invaded the Kaduna International Airport located in Igabi Local Government Area in Kaduna State, disrupting operations and killing one security personnel of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency.
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But Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, in a series of tweets on his Twitter handle on Tuesday, noted that citizens of Kaduna State have the capacity to confront the terrorists.
“If the government and security agencies can’t crush these terrorists and bandits kidnapping and killing our people in northern and southern Kaduna, people should be officially allowed to carry same weapons and let’s see who owns the land,” he said.