Sheikh Gumi: Bandits Ready To Surrender If Given Basic Amenities
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, the popular Islamic cleric, has said that bandits terrorising the nation are ready to drop their arms if social and basic amenities are provided for Fulani herdsmen at the grassroots. jamb results
Gumi said this while inspecting a school he built at Kagarko Grazing Reserves, Kaduna State through funding from Mosque Foundation Limited. THIS DAY reports.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaThe controversial cleric who has been campaigning for amnesty for the bandits said, if the facility which is designed to educate the herdsmen is rebuilt everywhere in the country, Nigerians will live peacefully.
He said instead of spending billions on military hardware to fight the bandits, Nigeria should spend such money on schools and teachers. Information Guide Nigeria
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He said the school project was initiated “to solve the insecurity problem we have from the root because every crime has its perpetrators and every perpetrators are drawn from a pool so we want to go there and dry the pool and we found out that education is the best cure.”
He added that: “If they are educated, they will not be doing what they are doing”.
“So, we say we must take education to the grassroots and we embarked on the project to also be an example for others, local government, state and federal and rich individuals even cooperative societies to come together and make sure that we are directed across the forest to know what we can do to carter for nomads.”
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“If we can duplicate this everywhere Nigerians will live in peace”, he said.
Asked to explain better the statement attributed to him that “Nigeria will no longer exist if bandits are declared as terrorists”, Gumi said he was quoted out of context.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to Canada“It is a quotation out of context. I didn’t say there will be no Nigeria. I said if banditry now has turned into terrorism, fanatical religious terrorism which is there because Islam recognises religious terrorism so if we allow the herdsmen to turn into religious fanatic and extremist it will not be good for us as a nation.”