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Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s aide, Bayo Onanuga, has called for vandals of public infrastructure to be “shot on sight.”
Onanuga commented on a post on X on Sunday while reacting to a video showing damage at an ongoing federal road project.
“Just shoot these unconscionable vandals/thieves on sight,” Onanuga wrote, noting that “they are the worst species of citizens.”
The video showed men wearing reflective jackets bearing the Federal Ministry of Works crest, explaining that vandals cut and removed starter bars, also known as shoulder rods, at the reconstruction site of the Ibadan–Ilesa/Ife federal highway.
In the footage, an official said the vandals removed the iron bars they could reach and cut out others, despite security at the site.
“So what happens is that we have some people vandalising these starter bars. You can see that they are pressing in some places, but all these vandals, they cut out of it; they remove the ones they could remove,” the official said.
The official added, “They cut the ones that are very solid and remove the ones they can remove entirely. These are starter bars. This is a very bad thing they are doing. These are vandals, and we have security patrols.”
