We’re inches away from crushing banditry — Defence minister Badaru

By Ibrahim Hassan-WuyoNigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, says the Armed Forces are closing in on overcoming banditry across the country, despite the recent resurgence of school abductions.Speaking in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service monitored in Kaduna, the minister acknowledged the persistence of security challenges but described the current pattern of attacks as characteristic of guerrilla tactics, where criminal groups strike intermittently to instill fear.