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Nigerian soldiers challenge bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, to a fight, tell him to stop killing civilians (Video)
A group of angry Nigerian soldiers have challenged notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, to come out of his hideout and face them instead of killing and kidnapping innocent civilians.
The soldiers who gave Turji the public challenge in a viral video posted on X on Tuesday night, expressed their frustration over the lack of directives from higher authorities to pursue the notorious terrorist and his criminal gang, and dared him to emerge from his hiding place and confront them.
In the video, the soldiers who spoke in Hausa language declared:
“You, Bello Turji, if you know you are man enough and believe you are truly the son of your mother, come out and let’s face each other.
“Since they have refused to give us an order to come to where you are, come out from your hideout and let us face each other and see what will happen.
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“Please for Allah’s sake, stop kidnapping and killing civilians; they are innocent.
“Before now, we didn’t know what a soldier or a gun was and we eliminated Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno State, let alone now that we are soldiers and know what a gun is. In fact, Bello Turji, you are mad.
“You have a gun and we have guns too, come out from your hideout and let us face each other.
“You are not man enough if you are kidnapping and killing innocent civilians, leave them and come out and face us.”
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