Sheikh Ahmed Gumi
Prominent Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi on Thursday, February 25, said if journalists want bandits to surrender they must stop describing them as criminals.
The North East Elders for Peace and Development has told Sheik Ahmad Gumi to stop justifying armed banditry and kidnapping currently rampant in the country.
Ahmad Gumi described bandits as militants. He said bandits are not interested in killing people and that the “few” they have killed are “accidental” cases.
A northern group, the Southern Kaduna Peoples’ Union, has alleged that Sheik Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi has turned himself into the spiritual leader of bandits.
Cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has declared that the federal government knows the hideout of the killer-herdsmen and bandits involved in killings and kidnappings.
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Sunday, February 21, asked the FG to extend blanket amnesty to Fulanis involved in kidnappings and everyone carrying a gun in the south.
Sheikh Abubakar Ahmad Gumi has said that the bandits he met recently revealed to him that they do not know the whereabouts of the abducted GSC Kagara students.
Popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Gumi, has called on the FG to give bandits willing to make peace ‘blanket amnesty’ to address the current security situation.
A popular and well-respected Islamic cleric based in Kaduna, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi has shared details of his recent meeting with armed bandits in Niger state.
Sheikh Ahmed Gumi
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