Featuring in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on
Arise Television, on Monday, Abaribe said the non-kinetic method is like asking
the perpetrators of kidnapping to come back and do the worse.

The lawmaker elected under the platform of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, was reacting to the deteriorating security
in Nigeria and how to nip it in the bud.

“I think it was spontaneous and I was just angry, I mean
what you would call righteous anger.

“The reason is that this was not the first time we have been
hearing that there is a type of collusion between the security agencies.

“Villagers would say they told the security people and they
would disappear but immediately after the bandits have struck, they would come
back.

“The point really is how does the government operate this
way? This sense that okay, let’s try pacification what they euphemically called
non-kinetic

“This is nothing but paying someone just to enable him to
come back tomorrow and even do the worst things.

“So, my anger stems from the fact that the Nigerian army has
imposed peace internationally; it is hard to reconcile the fact that the same
army is portrayed as being helpless,” he said.