Renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has warned that foreign jihadists would come into the country should bandits be declared terrorists, saying the development would come at a price.

He also called on clergymen to talk to Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, and the Indigenous People of Biafra just as he does to bandits.


Gumi, who is known to have access to bandits, had once asked the federal government to grant them blanket amnesty said declaring bandits as terrorists'll come at a price.

Commenting on the recent calls to declare bandits as terrorists, Gumi, in a statement posted on his Facebook page on Sunday, said there would be severe consequences, if the government declared bandits as terrorists.

While noting that the terrorism tag on the bandits would attract some unemployed youths, the cleric said: “The acts the Bandits are committing now in NW have gradually over time become tantamount to terrorism because wherever innocent people are fatal victims it’s pure terrorism,” the statement reads.

"Yet, innocence these days is relative. We agreed if their children and women are also killed, they are guilty by association or collateral damage, so also the bandits may think the same way. It’s right for vigilantes to lynch Fulanis herdsmen or anyone that looks like them by profiling but wrong for the herdsmen to ransack villages in retribution. They are pushed to believe it is an existential war and in war, ethics are thrown to the winds.


"Yet again, the only helpful part that is against Bandits is that no other than them are attracted to join them in the NW because of its ethnic tinge and coloration. However, the moment they are termed Terrorist – Islamic for that matter, the direct foreign Jihadist movements will set in in force. And many teaming unemployed youths may find it palatable and attractive.


Source:::https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/491666-gumi-warns-buhari-against-declaring-bandits-as-terrorists.html

Sheik...u again

When push comes to shove Gumi, will finally make his loyalty to terrorists disguised as bandit public.

Gumi needs to be arrested ASAP

Gumi the grand commander of terrorists has spoken.

Thunder where you dey?...for this present Nigeria government.

This Man should have been invited and given some Gentleman treatment in DsS custody

Gumi is a sympathizer of terrorists. That has become very clear. However, if he thinks his people can come from all over Africa and take over people's ancestral land, then he has another thing coming.