{"id":87180,"date":"2021-10-18T22:47:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=87180"},"modified":"2021-10-18T22:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:47:23","slug":"sokoto-attack-your-crushing-defeat-is-near-buhari-tells-bandits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/sokoto-attack-your-crushing-defeat-is-near-buhari-tells-bandits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sokoto attack: Your crushing defeat is near, Buhari tells bandits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1713994413608641866\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, Monday, sent a tough warning to bandits, saying that \u201cthe clock of your ultimate destruction is ticking as you will no longer have a place to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the killing of over 30 people in Goronyo in Sokoto State on Sunday by bandits, President Buhari said that \u201cthe days of the bandits are indeed numbered because the military capabilities of our forces are being boosted by the acquisition and deployment of advanced equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the President, \u201cthe bandits are living in the fool\u2019s paradise of invincibility, but reality will soon dawn on them harder than ever before.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nPresident Buhari in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu added that \u201cthe bandits are currently under desperate pressures because of the intense and sustained air and ground operations against them in their hideouts by our security forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cowardly attacks on innocent people by the bandits show a rearguard action of criminals under pressure. 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