Public Infrastructure Vandals Should be Shot on Sight, says Onanuga

Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, has called for vandals of public infrastructure to be shot on sight.

Onanuga made the statement in a post on X on Sunday, while reacting to a video showing damage to an ongoing federal road project.

“Just shoot these unconscionable vandals/thieves at sight. They are the worst specie of citizenships,” he wrote.

The video showed men wearing reflective jackets, emblazoned with the crest of the federal ministry of works, narrating how vandals cut and removed starter bars, also known as shoulder rods, at the reconstruction site of the Ibadan-Ilesa/Ife federal highway.

An official in the footage said the vandals removed sections of the iron bars they could access, and cut out others entirely, despite security presence 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,” he said.

“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.”

The Ibadan-Ilesa/Ife highway is one of the major roads being reconstructed by the federal government.