Community-driven banditry taints Nigeria's Buhari legacy and lurks in wait for successors

Nigeria.

Security officials in Plateau state on April 12, 2022, after an attack by bandits. Northern Nigeria has been worst affected. PHOTO | AFP

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari may not be seen as a failure. But his two-term tenure as a civilian leader of Nigeria may be punctuated with the toll banditry and terrorism has had on his security agencies.

Hardly a week passes before the forces declare killings of bandits, or terrorists. But the terror gangs also, occasionally take a toll on the forces and civilians.