Bandits Deserve Respect, Empathy, They Have Children, Families – Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Gumi
The controversial cleric asked that they should rather be respected and accorded human rights.

Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has urged security operatives to stop killing bandits that are ravaging villages, abducting schoolchildren and killing Nigerians.
The controversial cleric asked that they should rather be respected and accorded human rights.
“The bandits also have empathy as we have; they have families, children. The first step is to use psychology on them. They aired their grievances and are ready to change.

“They should be respected and should be given all the human rights everybody has,” Gumi said Thursday at a peace conference by the Center for the Advancement of Human Dignity and Value held at Arewa House in Kaduna.


The controversial self-appointed mediator to assist in finding a solution to banditry, Gumi, said Nigeria will spend less to enlighten bandits than it is spending on arms and ammunition, Peoples Gazette reports.

“Some are suggesting killing them. All because they are killing. For three year’s you have spent $1 billion, and now you need another $1 billion.

But Contrary to Gumi’s stance, Katsina Governor Aminu Masari said he bemoans that bandits have continued with their criminal activities despite being granted amnesty.

In several coordinated attacks, the criminals have kidnapped hundreds across North-East states, forcing school closure in Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger and Zamfara at different points.

In July, bandits bombed a Nigerian Air Force jet in Zamfara and attacked the Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna in August, killing two and abducting a Major.

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Gumi was arrested in Saudi Arabia in June, 2010 with strong evidences of alliance with global terrorism network. He was complicit to Abdulmutalab's Detroit bound aircraft suicide bomb attempt. He was going to die by hanging.... but, the North prevailed on the then federal government led by Goodluck Jonathan to secure his release at all cost.

Imagine how this fool is paying back the nation with full blown terrorism act! Look at the brazen impunity. It is so unfortunate that we have terrorists sympathizers at the helm of affairs in our country.

Gumi truly deserve to die in the year 2010.

Mumu

This man is comfortably mad

DSS personnel should have arrested this man if they are not bias and hisbah police.

Gummi can just say anything, once buhari is pleased he believes he is protected.

Lunatic! Terrorists! Bastard! They are all in the govt.

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I am waiting for the northern youths to comment on this.

Virginnn:
I am waiting for the northern youths to comment on this.

In waiting for them, you have ceded your authority to discern and be outraged by this plantain brain cleric to equally soft brained Northern Youths.

To slap this man just dey hungry me.

All ds bandit advocacy thing he is doing started like play. He was not arrested the first through the third time, now it has become a norm.

Govt of terrorists for terrorists and by terr0rists.

But only talking Buhari is an idiot u are tagged a terrorist not knowing d highest enabler of terrorism are people like Gumi and yet never invited for questioning

Abi which kind oloriburuku masanfani somebody is this one