Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said that the Niger-Delta region is relatively peaceful after the Nigerian government granted amnesty to militants and appointed their leaders, adding that the same method must be applied to bandits currently ravaging the country. Gumi noted that the Nigerian military has been hard on bandits with the approach…
Controversial Islamic scholar, Ahmad Gumi, has disclosed that security agents know the hideouts of bandits. Gumi said security agents who accompanied him during negotiations knew the hideouts of the bandits in the Northern part of the country. Speaking with Nigeria Info FM, on security agencies not knowing the hideout of bandits, the cleric said: “I don’t…
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has again claimed that there is no military solution to end the insecurity problems Nigeria is currently facing. The scholar who said this during an interview session with AriseNews TV which SaharaReporters monitored on Friday morning, insisted that persistent military attacks on the terrorists were responsible for their latest…
Aprominent Kaduna-based Islamic cleric and former military officer, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has told the Nigerian Government to embrace the idea of negotiation with the bandits and other non-state actors ravaging the country. During an interview with Trust TV, the Islamic cleric stated that the government is wrong to continue spending billions of naira to…
Popular Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, has urged the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to support a factional bandits group to stop mass abductions of school pupils. He stated this on Wednesday while reacting to the abduction of 200 Islamiyya schoolchildren in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. Gumi told The PUNCH that many bandits were…
Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Gumi has been mentioned amidst the kidnap of GSS Students in Zamfara. This publication gathered that some Nigerians have started calling on the Sheikh Gumi to meet with the bandits in order to secure their release as he has done in the last two kidnaps in the north. Some have also…
Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, met with abductors of the staff and students of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State. According to TVC News, the meeting took place at Tagina forest in Niger State on Thursday, February 18. The bandits wielding their guns, were led by their leader, Dogo Gide. Sheik Gumi appealed…
