The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, said it is not easy for Nigerian troops to capture bandits and terrorists who are kidnapping citizens.
Morka made this remark on Tuesday in an interview on The Morning Brief, a programme on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST.
He was reacting to the wave of insecurity bedevilling the country, where people, including women and schoolchildren, are being kidnapped.
“I am not a law enforcement person but I imagine that when people who commit these crimes withdraw into the tents of the forests, it’s not easy for the army to simply capture them.
“I don’t think this is something we should be commenting too much on. These efforts we’re discussing are ongoing. When they produce the results, even when arrests are made, usually, these are not necessarily subject of immediate media review.
“Because people who are arrested in these circumstances also have to be processed, identified and interrogated. And some of these things take time. The common criminals sometimes take days, if not weeks, to get results. So I think we need to be patient.
“The good news is that in some of these cases, thank God we are bringing home some of the victims. And the idea that the President has given the matching order to security forces to bring home everyone who is caught in this web of unjustifiable crime and criminality,” he said.