A former Minister of Communication Adebayo Shittu has urged the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to promise bandits a promising future by negotiating with them.

Shittu said most of these bandits are able-bodied men whom the Federal Government should retain.

Featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, the former minister said a non-kinetic approach in dealing with banditry would bring about a lot of results.

“If I am in a position, it is not too late to use non-kinetic measures in negotiating with bandits, giving them a promising future. Let us retain them. Many of them are very intelligent, many of them are able-bodied,” Shittu said.