A renown Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, yesterday described calls for amnesty for Boko Haram as hypocritical, saying it is not the solution to the insecurity ravaging the North.

In a statement he posted on Facebook, the Kaduna-based cleric proposed ways in which the insurgency can be curtailed, noting that the present crop of leaders have not shown any capacity for managing the challenge.

He said: “We have missed the crux of the matter. Corruption is incurable, it is only suppressed… by genuine ethics/faith illumination campaigns like the Ethical Revolution, W.A.I., Re-brand Nigeria, etc. and an effective system of accountability (i.e. check and balance) or what can be summed up as good governance.

“As for the amnesty to Boko Haram, it is hypocritical. Boko Haram as an ideology that respects no law, not even the Qur’an or Hadith or scholarly fatwa. They have their own interpretation, anything short of that is part of the enemy that should be killed. So on what basis should there be dialogue or amnesty? It is a creed that must be crushed; it is a creed the Prophet – Alaihis Salam – wished he is alive to exterminate.

“The question today is, who can do that? I say definitely not the present dispensation because it lacks the moral high ground to defeat them. Already, a greater amount of innocent people were killed, maimed, tortured and incarcerated by the JTF in the name of fighting Boko Haram than the damage caused by them or those that camouflage behind them.”

He said the whole region is made to suffer economically, socially and politically because of this “blind war on terror.”

“The present dispensation has everything to gain in refusing the ‘amnesty’ call for political reasons, that is why it is recalcitrant. Otherwise, if the need to crush Boko Haram is genuine, it would have been achieved since,” he added.

Gumi added: “Let a select Muslim high ranking officer cadre of the armed forces take charge of this whole ‘operation’ from investigations to incursions. It needs a careful excision and only the person that feels the pains of society has the capacity to carry it out.

“Like removing a tumour from the brain, you don’t give that to an orthopaedic surgeon, no matter how good, to do that. It is an operation of precision, not brute force. This choice of tackling a peculiar problem is the sign of good governance. Special missions have special requirements if success is the objective.

“Boko Haram are armed individuals hiding in a civilian population. They do not control any high fire power to be engaged in a war. Therefore, there is absolutely no need – whatsoever – to deploy and ultimately exhaust the military in road blocks all over the spheres of their activities.

“What are needed are very good intelligence, special strike squads and the genuine cooperation of the civilian population, which can never be achieved through intimidation.

“So when the issue is tackled with the impulses of vengeance and retaliation, as the case is now, the whole saga is gradually turning into another thing all together. This is what makes the future bleak and frightening.”

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ATTENTION!!! Code yellow! I repeat, Code yellow!! That statement is a DECOY... Mr president sir! Do not fall for it. Over!

I love your courage!

Sheik Gumi is on point with this one....Amnesty kwa....!!!

Why calling Amnesty for Ideological war, except u re surrendering what they(boko) want which is the power of the state,Amnesty solve nothing.....!!!


Hell yea,Boko woulda been solved if there is genuine intention to solve it.....Azazi comes mind!!!