In an interview with VANGUARD, the Presidential Spokesperson did react to the National Assembly’s call to designate Bandits as Terrorists.

Still talking about banditry, not too long ago, the Senate passed a resolution asking the President to declare them terrorists and 24 hours later, the House of Representatives joined in that call and outcry?

It does appear that the presidency hasn’t done anything about that.

But then, Nigerians are still clamouring. Do you see that happening or not?

Adesina: For me personally, mark my words, personally, it is a matter of semantics. Semantics is a theory of meaning in language.

So, whether they are called terrorists or they’re called bandits, it is just semantics. A criminal is criminal. They either repent, change their ways or you eliminate them. That’s what matters.

Who are terrorist? Terrorists more often than not levy war against a nation and they seek to seize territories and occupy them.

That is a terrorist and that is why Boko Haram are terrorists, because at the time before this administration came, they were occupying a minimum of 17 local governments in this country and they wanted more.

They wanted to take over the entire country and create a caliphate. They are terrorists. These ones, bandits, they have no ideology. No ideology. They are just interested in criminality for the sake of criminality. Robbing, raping, maiming, stealing, no ideology. Have you heard that they seized territory? They are not interested.

So, but like I said, criminality is criminality. Eliminate all of them and that is what our security forces are doing.