Former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, says security forces in the country are not honest in their efforts to crush bandits terrorising the North-West part of the country.

He said renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi was able to locate and hold a peace talk with bandits in Zamfara State because he employed a non-combative approach.

Garba, who spoke on a PUNCH Live programme over the weekend, said combative approach has not yielded any result since the country started its counter-insurgency and anti-banditry war over 10 years ago.

The PUNCH had reported that photos of Sheikh Gumi with some bandits in Shinkafi and Gummi Local Government Areas of Zamfara had surfaced online last week.

Sheikh Gumi had visited different bandits’ camps in Zamfara to spread the message of Islam and peace in order to rid the country of kidnappings and banditry.

“Let there be peace; you all have a legitimate concern and grievances, and I believe that since the Niger Delta armed militants were integrated by the Federal Government and are even in the business of pipelines protection, the Federal Government should immediately look into how something like that will be done to the Fulani to provide them with reasonable means of livelihood including jobs, working capitals, entrepreneurship training, building clinic and schooling,” Sheikh Gumi had told the bandits during the visits.

Responding to questions on how best to tackle the insecurity in the North-West and North-East geopolitical zones of the country, Garba said, “Giving them money itself is empowering what they are doing. You can’t neutralise a bandit or a terrorist with money, you will use money to empower him. You can neutralise him by bringing his understanding on the table and show him that he belongs, rather than an external person that should be destroyed.”

Continuing, he said, “The security agents say they don’t know where they (bandits) are and they cannot find them but they are not altogether honest.

“What is the total size of Nigeria? So, you can actually locate them but the problem is that can you confront them and neutralise them using fire power? That is the question. A security man will go there with his own AK-47 and some tanks and bombs, that is what he wants to use. He has to plan and to the best of his knowledge, as long as he is not ready to confront them, he didn’t see them.

“But Sheikh Gumi said, ‘I come in peace, you can search me, I just want to talk, know what is your problem so that I can tell the public you plights, that was why they said, ‘Okay, we are lowering our guards, we will allow you to come, we will tell you our frustration and then we will let you go in peace’.

“If the government should have cultivated that kind of approach, it will have been easier.”

The ex-presidential aspirant further said unfair distribution of economic resources was the spine of the various security challenges confronting the nation.

“Economics is the root cause and the perfect solution to this problem. So, until our politicians or leaders begin to look at economic approach to this problem by lowering their guards and approaching everyone at his own level to bring them on board, we will always be having this problem,” Garba said.

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This man is beginning to talk too much.
indirectly calling for dialogue, did the bandits dialogue with the victims? ( like oga make we kidnap you base on say money no dey;

the only sense he made is security agency not be diligent and honest to crub them. the only language bandit will understand is fire for fire

Hadley02:
There are some elements of truth here.

which element of truth madam.

iam MASTER Blink's

Ok...

Adamu Garba is a rétarded nuisance

THEY WANT TO GIVE AMNESTY TO ALL BANDITS UP NORTH.

INCLUDING SKEKAU...

2022..

Bloody jannjaweed....

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which sane govt negotiates with terrorist?

All of you are bird of a feather.

Go follow Obasanjo talk nonsense like diz e go destroy dem all..

With a very basic tech equipments, you can easily locate them. However, you people choose to endanger the lives of our field soldiers

Thunder fire.......

wonder why people are considering amnesty for people who take up arms without any justifiable reason against the nation

Tales by moonlight, my own take is that we should go way back to 1913 before the coming of Lugard when we were independent of each other in order to reevaluate this our so-called ONE NIGERIA.

Adamu stop speaking from both sides of the mouth

If you agree that the government is not serious in their fight against bandit Terrorists then don't start giving excuse on their behalf.

The security forces of the federal republic of Nigeria should not be scared of brandishing it's might to deal with Islamic Bandits

The Gumi that masturbated with them what did he tell the public their plight is (they don't have any)

So Fulani bandits want amnesty Lmao! Comparing them to Naija Delta militants is an insult on our collective intelligence. This Fulani agenda is real and in full force!

I guess killing of 19 villagers in Kaduna is the positive results of Shiek Gumi

Adamu Garba, Sunday Igholo, Aisha Yesuf and Nnamdi Kanu are all the same.

Stop giving this terrorist sympathizers media platform!

Imagine someone opining that dialogue not combat is the way to deal with Boko Haram savages and both PUNCH and NAIRALAND are giving him platform to spread that venom. WTF!

dis man brain de do off and on,very unsteady

Adamu Garbage, smh!

but combative approach worked against EndSARS protestors and ESN abi?

what a country look at what we have been reduce to. all this nonsense will stop if government can give everyone gun since they gave to bandits and cant control them again.imagine if everyone has a gun. wetin be bandit

I don't understand, they're even with RPG's posing for a pics, I mean these guys are being protected even... Find who? They know exactly where they are, they all live together...

Adamu Garbage has come again.

Shaikh Gumi was once arrested for Terrorism in Saudi Arabia. He is the same person advising the FG on how to strike deals with terrorists.
The North is now advocating settlement of bandits and want to turn it into a state policy. The true sponsors of terror are now speaking up.

They are not in the East of Nigeria, so PMB Security forces can’t find them.

PMB clan believes that crude oil is all there is for a country to survive.
So they draft the best of the armed forces to police the east of Nigeria;
with the hope that east can’t break out of Nigeria; and to be quickly followed with break away of rest of the oil producing areas in the south from Nigeria.