{"id":74708,"date":"2025-09-01T14:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74708"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:12:48","slug":"onsa-dismisses-el-rufais-claim-on-payments-to-bandits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/01\/onsa-dismisses-el-rufais-claim-on-payments-to-bandits\/","title":{"rendered":"ONSA Dismisses El-Rufai\u2019s Claim on Payments to Bandits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has denied allegations by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, that the Federal Government is coordinating payments and inducements to bandits.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed on Monday by its spokesperson, Zakari Mijinyawa, ONSA described El-Rufai\u2019s comments as \u201cbaseless\u201d and contrary to verifiable facts, stressing that the administration has never engaged in ransom payments or inducements to criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt no time has the ONSA, or any arm of government under this administration, engaged in ransom payments or inducements to criminals. On the contrary, we have consistently warned Nigerians against paying ransom,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai, while speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Sunday, accused the Federal Government of adopting a \u201ckiss-the-bandits\u201d approach, alleging that national security officials were compensating armed groups instead of confronting them militarily. He insisted that such a \u201cnon-kinetic\u201d approach amounted to empowering bandits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has denied allegations by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, that the Federal Government is coordinating payments and inducements to bandits. In a statement signed on Monday by its spokesperson, Zakari Mijinyawa, ONSA described El-Rufai\u2019s comments as \u201cbaseless\u201d and contrary to verifiable facts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74710,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74708\/revisions\/74710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}