Security Personnel Know All the Bandits That Operate in That Axis; They Know Where They Operate They cannot apprehend them before an attack due to the risk of collateral damage because the bandits live among civilians. They must act carefully to avoid harming citizens. — Special Adviser to the... President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanugashow more

The irony of this is that in the South east, at every 10 kilometers drive you do on the highway you will find Army, Navy,RRS,FRSC,Police, vigilante checkpoints,collecting 100 naira from poor bus drivers, But from kano to Dutse you can't find them on the highway. I just laugh sha

The summary of this clip is CLUELESSNESS. You don't know what to do to bandits. You didn't realize your territory is under-policed until Trump's tweets.

I lost brain cells listening to this drivel. “Let’s do this, let’s do that… there are ungoverned spaces… police had one gun… VIPs have well armed police.” What the actual hell?! Come on air to describe the NOTHING they’re doing. Yes! We know! My goodness. This hurts so bad!

@aonanuga1956, your uselessness is getting too too much. They are killing and kidnapping people, and not even one has been arrested, and you are here talking about collateral damage😏 Nigerians are not fools, please

Collateral damage only comes into play in northern Nigeria…. The military does not care who dies when it’s “operation pyton dance”.

It's clear that the administration is involved from what the chief Servants of the BATeria slaves is saying. Tinubu is OTP 💯

That assertion collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. If security personnel truly know all the bandits operating in a given axis, know their locations, and understand their patterns, then the claim that they cannot act because of “collateral damage” becomes a convenient shield for institutional failure. In every functioning security architecture, intelligence is not an end in itself, it is a tool for prevention, disruption, and precision-based operations. To admit that the state possesses full intelligence yet remains unable to act is to admit that either the intelligence is useless, the will to act is absent, or the capacity to act has eroded. None of these are acceptable for a government claiming seriousness about public safety. Precision arrests, discreet interdictions, night-time operations, targeted surveillance, and isolation tactics exist precisely to avoid civilian harm; governments that are truly committed deploy them. When the state hides behind “collateral damage,” it signals its own weakness rather than any real strategic limitation. Moreover, the idea that bandits live among civilians and therefore can not be apprehended ignores the simple truth that every criminal, everywhere in the world, operates among a civilian population. Cities, towns, and villages are not sterile zones. Yet competent states remove dangerous actors without turning communities into war zones. If anything, allowing known criminals to remain embedded among citizens increases the very risks the government claims to be avoiding. A state that knows where the danger is but chooses to wait for attacks before acting is not being careful. It is being negligent. The primary responsibility of government is protection, not explanation. So, if security forces possess actionable intelligence, the logical and responsible step is strategic prevention, not passive observation. Anything short of that is not caution; it is complicity disguised as prudence.

@ikhide "Security agencies have systems for tracking these criminals, allowing them to monitor developments in real time. They reached out to the kidnappers and demanded the release of the victims, and they complied, aware of the consequences of defying government directives." -Onanuga

At this point I believe it is fair to say both the Nigerian Government and the Military are in on these insecurity issues. Why is the military not doing anything? Why do we report warnings of attacks and the military do nothing until it is carried out.

Dude just said on live tv that the terrorist released the victims because they listen to the goverment!!!!! A senior adviser to the president a chief spokesman of Tinubu!!!!

If this were happening in SE/SS, Arewa and Ronu would be screaming for the entire community to be burnt down.

This man Bayo onanuga and Daniel Bwala will keep exposing the government wickness to the world, and it is like Bwala has been caged till further notice

Very unintelligent response from a spokes man. You calling terrorists bandits. God will keep exposing you all.

What kind of useless comment from a useless person is this? You mean the Government knows those who are suffering, killing and maiming Nigerians and the government cannot do anything about it allowing the insecurity situation to fester at the expense of people’s lives, peace and liberty? What kind of uselessness, indiscretion and lack of tact is this from Mr Onanuga @aonanuga1956 ?

Thanks for exposing the Gov and justifying Mr Trump who calls us a Shameless country. So bandits can kill soldiers, Police and innocent citizens but they have immunity. You know where they are but can’t touch them. The most underrated statement in 2025, this explains it all.

…. But the Nigerian Intelligence community don’t know their sponsors, collaborators and leaders? I don’t know for what reason but I’m 1000% certain the Nigerian Govt is involved. They are just fooling the masses.

So security agents know the bandits, know their locations, know their patterns, yet somehow only spring into action after innocent people are killed, all in the name of “avoiding collateral damage”? That explanation is not just weak; it’s an insult to Nigerians’ intelligence. If the government truly knows these criminals so well, then targeted intelligence operations, surveillance, and coordinated arrests should be routine. Instead, we’re told to accept helplessness as strategy. The truth is simple: this isn’t about collateral damage, it’s about a system that lacks the competence, urgency, and political will to protect its own citizens. @POTUS @AJEnglish @ADCVanguard_ @atiku @PeterObi @channelstv @

I'm hearing this man's voice for the first time, considering the office that he held, he didn't meet up with my expectation

So why have they not been using this supposedly very effective means of “easily asking the bad guy..” to get every citizen in kidnappers detention free ?🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️ You guys just talk to Nigerian like we are your 2year old kids 🥲🥲

Why is this @aonanuga1956 dude giving me Buhari vibe. VERY UNARTICULATE! If na to begin type on Twitter to attack people he will arrange himself. He ended up indicating the security agencies and the government he should be defending. This is the SA to the president. This God eh!

I can bring myself to watching this nonsense to the end. This is evil and wicked people in government we are dealing with. What a pure liar is this??

The Nigerian government contacted the “bandits” and ordered the “bandits” to release the victims or else the Nigerian government will punish the “bandits” for refusing an order from the “almighty” Nigerian government. Just like that, the “bandits” trembled with so much fear...

Absolute government support for their activities. Imagine the kind of minds being called leaders in Nigeria. Onanuga @aonanuga1956 Operation Python dance did not happen in the forests. It happened inside the citizens' enclave. God will shame you all Yaribastards.

Omo, you can see it in his eyes. Even as he says it, he knows just how terrible what he is saying is, but man must chop!

Hear Onanuga: “…they didn’t escape from the bandits, nobody took [abducted] them away. They ran helter-skelter and ran to their parents." This man sounds so silly and foolish.... If he doesn't know what he to say, why is he trying to say just anything? It is said that the worst thing that can happen to a man is to have children that have no shame whatsoever. What then happens, if it is the father that is shameless? He has virtually indicted the govt for its cluelessness, gross incompetence, and perhaps, complicity. This man is a square peg in a round hole.

In other words the bandit are back to their bush with their guns ISN'T IT OBVIOUS YOU DONT HAVE SOLUTION TO NIGERIAS PROBLEM SO NIGERIANS SHOULD WAIT FOR ANOTHER VICTIM

Guess where the military personne were deployed to. I mean the ones that are supposed to guard the northern states. Most of them were posted to the east to do rat race and crocodile smile. Military checkpoints are everywhere in the east. Yet the troubled states are in the north

Na the @aonanuga1956 dey sound empty like this??? What a waste of taxpayers' money, Dang! The worst of us are really ruling the best of us. 🤦🏾‍♂️

The problem with this administration is that they are always quick to defend incompetence and give excuses. But when it comes to other things that’s when they are sharp and smart and know what to say.. They just refuse to tackle the issue head on. Well it’s now looking like it’s the US that will need to come in and do the work…

And Onanuga dey your station dey talk trash. You can see why terrorists are flourishing in Nigeria

If this is truly how events are unfolding, it raises the concern that the government could be connected to the kidnappings and killings, especially since no terrorists have been arrested or neutralized... possibly to appear more favorable to the U.S.

It is now clear why the country will remain in this state, this is the fool advising the president