Controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has alleged that Nigerian security agencies know the hideouts of bandits in different forests in the North.
Gumi who disclosed this while speaking on a radio programme in Kaduna on Tuesday, challenged security agencies to deny the allegations as many of them had accompanied him to the bandits’ hideouts during negotiations to free kidnap victims during the regime of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Gumi who insisted that the bandits are mainly herdsmen, said most of them are largely Nigerians with a few foreigners who are fighting back from a position of marginalisation.
The cleric also portrayed the bandits as marginalized citizens deprived of basic social services like education, infrastructure, and water.
On the abducted 287 students from Kuriga Government Secondary and LEA Primary Schools in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna who were kidnapped by bandits on March 7, Gumi renewed his call for government to negotiate with the bandits for the release of the victims.
Nigerian security agencies know bandits’ hideouts —Sheikh Gumi
Controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has alleged that Nigerian security agencies know the hideouts of bandits in different forests in the North.
Gumi who disclosed this while speaking on a radio programme in Kaduna on Tuesday, challenged security agencies to deny the allegations as many of them had accompanied him to the bandits’ hideouts during negotiations to free kidnap victims during the regime of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Gumi who insisted that the bandits are mainly herdsmen, said most of them are largely Nigerians with a few foreigners who are fighting back from a position of marginalisation.
The cleric also portrayed the bandits as marginalized citizens deprived of basic social services like education, infrastructure, and water.
On the abducted 287 students from Kuriga Government Secondary and LEA Primary Schools in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna who were kidnapped by bandits on March 7, Gumi renewed his call for government to negotiate with the bandits for the release of the victims.
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