Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said bullets and other forces of arms alone cannot stop an armed robbery, banditry, and other forms of criminality in the country.
He said this on Sunday in Abuja at the 50th birthday reception of a former Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka.
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According to him, tackling crimes and criminology requires top-quality programmes of the government, technology and other tactics.
He said “With the cases of armed robbery and others going on now shows clearly that bullets alone cannot stop it or other criminal activities in human beings.
“It requires top-quality programmes of the government, it requires technology, it requires a lot to stop the armed robbery and all forms of crimes, including corruption that we talk about every day,” Jonathan said.
He said while governments were killing armed robbers, others were robbing the pockets in the same arena and that is the kind of society that citizens are in today.
He said things are becoming more complex with the introduction of IT that is now ruling the world, thus need for collective action to stem the tide of criminality.