This comes after the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari that troops should deal mercilessly with bandits.
“It was no longer in doubt that the current federal administration and set of state governors have lost the capacity and necessary courage to discharge the vital constitutional duty that they swore to uphold.
“The situation is getting worse literally by the day, as bandits and insurgents take advantage of the huge vacuum in the administration’s political will and capacity to act which they exploit with disastrous consequences on communities and individuals.
“The situation under which all northern communities live today is no longer tolerable, everyone must rise to protect themselves,” the group stated.
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