Bandits Are Tired, They Want Genuine Peace – Ex-National Insurance Boss.

Bandits Are Tired, They Want Genuine Peace – Ex-National Insurance Boss.

Usman Yusuf, former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme ( NHIS), says bandits “want genuine peace”

Yusuf said he has learned from several meetings with the bandits that they are willing to listen to religious leaders.

Speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday, he said the bandits “are tired”.

“This is what we find out, in all the five states we went in, they listen to clerics. In Niger state, they gathered in force to a meeting of war commanders, from six states, in the forest,” he said.

“Nobody has drawn that kind of crowd, they listen to the Sheikhs. They are tired and want genuine peace. We go there through clerics. They listen to clerics; All clerics of all faiths.”