CONTROVERSIAL Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, said on Monday that the current military onslaught on bandits in Zamfara State and other parts of the North-West would not yield the desired results.

Gumi also warned against poor handling of the situation so that it would not go the way of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Rather, the cleric, in a statement on his Facebook wall, titled, ‘Zamfara: The flaring crisis,’ noted that the Federal Government should handled the matter just the way it did to the EndSAR protest or the Niger Delta militants.

Gumi also stated that the Federal Government should grant amnesty to bandits in the North just the way the administration of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua did to the Niger Delta militants before his demise.

According to the controversial cleric, military actions in the past have worsened the situation, causing herdsmen resistance.

“Any more action will push them closer to religious fanaticism. It gives them protection from discrediting them as thieves and also reinforces their mobilisation of gullible young unemployed youth as we saw with Boko Haram.

“These measures I enumerated are cheaper, easier, and lasting than the kinetic approach which is now taking place. No military, especially of a poor economy, can win guerrilla warfare. The recent victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan is a factual warning for those that contemplate this.”

Gumi said the conflict could be resolved by engagement of the government with the agitators and not the use of force which would further escalate the entire situation.
He said, “With their acquisition of weapons, they realised how easy it became to be masters of their abode; the forest, where no authority can venture into. This has emboldened them to further attack people for more ransoms to sustain their newfound reality.

“Now, with the prodding of the government to take more military actions of an already ugly situation whereby they were left to amass weapons, a huge military budget that is almost draining the economy to a standstill in the purchase of fighter aircrafts and conducting military operations in the region has become to the authorities, in their calculations, a necessity.”

“Unfortunately, this is no solution or wisdom. When you don’t have the monopoly of the instruments of violence, then dialogue has the monopoly of resolving the conflict.
“This is what the UN is all about; roundtable resolution of conflicts. What we are seeing is more than just criminals and criminality. Yes, it may have started as such but like any conflict, it is dynamic.”

Source: https://punchng.com/Onslaught-against-bandits-can-turn-Nigeria-into-Afghanistan-Gumi

Let the Afghanistan be restricted to the North.

Sheik Gumi and Fulani terrorists are one and the same.

And this man still walks freely in this country.

Terrorists' Spokesman has spoken!

And this man is allow to walk freely while those freedom seekers are in jail.

What an irony!

In a sane country, sheikh Gumi is supposed to be arrested for aiding Terrorism just as he was once arrested in 2010 for Terrorism in Saudi Arabia.
Why would this chief Terrorist think of using Nigerian tax money to pay/reward foreign Fulani terrorists who have been inflicting pains & sorrows on Innocent Nigerians?
The Northern elders are the problems of the North.
NO AMNESTY FOR TERRORISTS!

I really feel like uttering abominable expletives against this thing but I would hold myself back because I have come to the conclusion that it belongs to that negligible species Anuofius Fulanocus that reasons with it's anus instead!

Gumi should be arrested and prosecuted asap.

How did we get to this level Na? This Gumi get mind ooooo

what about the IPOB members killed everyday nko..... If e turn out we go see

But if it was someone from the south or west saying this things he would be in custody by now, who are we deceiving Nigeria is not one

DSS, Police, Army, Defense headquarter and intelligent units will play deaf ears, south is slave and will continue to be while north owns it all and will continue to lord over the foolish and greedy south. Una good morning.

Rubbish

Here we go again. This is a subtle threat from the terrorist (Nigerian bandits) spokesman, and as usual, nothing will be done to him.

This kind of talk eh. I can't even understand

And dis man still dey walk freely abi? @DSS (Demons Special Service of Bo-kohari govt) am sure una still dey investigate whether na fake news abi or Photoshop.


The tables will surely turn make una kwantinuuuu

I think this Man knows more about bandit than what we think...... How can you be this sympathetic to evil conspiracy and still boldly come out to flaunt it as if it's a birthright.

Is this man okay at all? what kind of country is this for God's sake, cant he be arrested, sometimes I wonder how I ended up in same country with these morons.

Saudi Arabia arrested this Sheikh of fools for terrorism. If they killed him, he won't be here supporting terrorists.

This is why terrorists should be killed and never released.

Amnesty on what?
What are they agitating for ?
Is the federal government marginalizing them?

This man thinks he is deceiving Nigerians, we already know these tricks and it won’t work. This man is a terrorist, he knows more than the Nigeria intelligence, he should be arrested and questioned.

I hope the DSS is seeing the nonsense this bearded terrorist is saying.

Ok

He is mad.

The bandits should be cleared out totally.

But onslaught against self determination is good? The world is watching this deceit and self-induced hallucination.

This Bandit spokesman should also be arrested and locked up like Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho since he is now threatening the state of Nigeria. But I know this will never happen with this nepotic government !!!