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Mr Yusuf said the residents of Shinkafi engaged his team (clerics) to dialogue with Mr Turji on behalf of the residents of Shinkafi to allow them to return to the farm in the forest. He said the meeting took place three times in July in the Fakai forest.


Zamfara terrorism kingpin, Bello Turji, has released 32 kidnapped persons and agreed to stop attacking farmers following a series of meetings with some Islamic clerics in his hideout.

Musa Yusuf, a cleric popularly known as Asadus-Sunnah, disclosed the development at a religious gathering on Monday in Kaduna.

Mr Yusuf said Mr Turji also surrendered some of his arms after the meeting in the Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

The cleric said Shinkafi residents engaged his team of clerics to appeal to Mr Turji to let them access their farms in the forest. He said the meeting took place three times in July in the Fakai forest.

“We met Mr Turji, Dan Bakkolo, Black, Kanawa and Malam Ila. The speculation that Dan Bakkolo was killed is not true. These people are the ones terrorising the axis, and they all agreed to the peace proposals, one of which is for them to surrender some of their arms to show commitment to the peace process.

“They surrendered the arms in three phases at different times, and allowed the residents of Shinkafi to access their farms in the forest across the river heading to Mr Turji enclaves. We agreed that the Fulanis must be allowed to go to town without being stereotyped or killed by the vigilante.

"He (Mr Turji) also released 32 kidnapped captives as part of the peace agreement,” Mr Yusuf said and showed the video of some of the released captives and the difficult terrain they crossed to reach Mr Turji’s camp.

He said the freed persons, including children and women, had spent about four months in captivity. He said some of the women gave birth in captivity, while one suffered a snake bite.

Mr Yusuf said that since the deal, the area (Shinkafi axis) has enjoyed relative peace, and the locals are cultivating their farmlands without fear of being kidnapped.

Mr Yusuf said the clerics were still trying to persuade Mr Turji to accept total peace, but they did not ask him to surrender all his arms so as not to make him vulnerable to attack by other groups opposed to the peace process in the state.

He warned clerics attacking Mr Turji online that their utterances would only exacerbate the situation.

He said that while the deal with Mr Turji would not end terrorist attacks in Zamfara, the communities on his axis are enjoying peace.

The cleric commended President Bola Tinubu, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, the Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, and Senator Shehu Buba for supporting a non-kinetic approach in addressing the security challenges of the area.

In October, Mr Turji warned that peace would continue to elude Zamfara State until the security forces and vigilante groups stopped attacking the Fulanis.

“This is why we are calling on all of you to come and collaborate with us for peace to reign and stop the bloodbath in Zamfara. Guns and airstrikes will not stop us because we are not afraid of death.

“The blame game over the worsening security situation between Governor Lawal and Bello Matawalle, now the Minister of State for Defence, was political, saying both politicians do not have their people’s best interests at heart, ” Mr Turji said, in a video clip.


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So Nigeria have come to the point of negotiating with terrorists?
So they even know who these terrorists are and where to locate them

Imagine oh

A Country of Two Laws.
We copied democracy but zero knowledge about how to protect it.

Utter breach of the Social Contract.

Go and meet Benjamin netayanhu to train you on how to deal with terrorists not the usual nonsense of negotiating with them

You ppl are madt.
Cleric or not..
This is why I just ignore those emotional idiots in the South who laments when the bandits kidnapped or mass murder in the North

Hampers001:
So Nigeria have come to the point of negotiating with terrorists?
So they even know who these terrorists are and where to locate them

Imagine oh

My brother,there is more to insecurity in Nigeria than meets the eye. We are taking this road again,wasn't it the same thing Sheikh Gumi was doing a while go and the result was more banditry. It is only a foolish man who keeps doing the same thing and expect a different result.
It seems some people both in and outside government could be making it big by the unfortunate insecurity situation we found ourselves in this country.

They will grant him presidential amnesty as a repentant bandit and enlist him in the army

Since Trump close USAID, money no de again to continue insecurity. As NA are finishing them fast, they have to find opportunity to release their captive and japa. Shey na poor Nigerians go de pay ransom and feeding money?

Good job from PBAT... Nigeria is moving forward... On your mandate we shall stand jagaban...

These ones respect clerics pass anything for this life


At least, dem respect one person. Those ones for SE wey dey take orders from Helsinki, Finland, dem no dey respect anybody for their region

Chai! Bello Turji running a terrorist government within a sovereign country. Oma se o. Meanwhile IPOB are terrorists while Bello Turji have allegedly remained elusive to the many barrage of lame duck security agencies
Make una continue

Let me echo the words of a Nairalander: a repentant terrorist is a dead terrorist.

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We agreed that the Fulanis must be allowed to go to town without being stereotyped or killed by the vigilante.

Glory, the Hausa people are waking up

EvilMerodack:
These ones respect clerics pass anything for this life


At least, dem respect one person. Those ones for SE wey dey take orders from Helsinki, Finland, dem no dey respect anybody for their region

Military will still kill him

Omo what I did just read nitori Olorun??

So na to dey beg bandits remain??

At least since the C-in-C can't provide protection for the communities, na beg go remain ooo

doffman Expanse2020 is it true that your bros has surrendered

Hampers001:
So Nigeria have come to the point of negotiating with terrorists?
So they even know who these terrorists are and where to locate them

Imagine oh

Turji is powerful because he's working for some powerful Northerners. If surrendering would solve the killings, so be it

helinues:
Turji is powerful because he's working for some powerful Northerners. If surrendering would solve the killings, so be it

Name them

Jerryhare:
Name them

Sorry who is this?

helinues:
Sorry who is this?

Name the powerful Northerners the guy is working for

They had to negotiate because of the people that was held captive.

If they decided to fight, they will put the life of the people captured at risk.

Some miscreants want government to kill Nnamdi kanu but government should pardon Turji Bello welcome to two Nigeria!

Tinubu might possibly be the last president. With his style of governing this country, it's going to be almost impossible for any incoming candidate to adopt or reject.

Settlement, settlement and settlement for peace to reign.

Well he has no choice because that's the only thing that's still keeping us as a country, and it's going to last for a while but at the end.....over to you Seun

I wonder how people fail to realize that he's a chess piece on the board financed and controlled by a certain sect of people in the government. This is just a facet of the endgame. The homerun is coming soon. That's why at times, I don't give a f*** about the insecurity in the north cos even the indigenes are in on it from a broader perspective

That is why this country need to follow the path of true federalism to make a meaningful progress. Every tribe or society have a special way of settlling issues within them. Give each geopolitical zone a total control of their affairs and see how peace will return to entire country.

These terrorists are mostly carries out their jihads because of their hatred for the southerners they see as unbelievers and western ideology form of government. They will most likely listen to their religion leaders and regional government and get along by little encouragement to embrace civility.

helinues:
Turji is powerful because he's working for some powerful Northerners. If surrendering would solve the killings, so be it

Imaginee

Tomorrow he can be a General in the Nigerian Armed Forces so said a serving General.

Now soldiers will have to guard him when he chooses to come out of hiding so soldiers will not unalive him. Who understands Nigeria need not write Jamb

Sad!
We now negotiate with terrorist but are quick to shot unarmed civilians

helinues:
Turji is powerful because he's working for some powerful Northerners. If surrendering would solve the killings, so be it

The lives that are lost nko?
Will he return back the lives?
So there's just no outright prosecution of the troubles of peace in a Nation? Instead the reward is negotiation and surrendering? This would not solve the solution because along the line, one party will always default or renege on the negotiation and then continue their agitation maybe fierce this time...
Nawa oh

We Yoruba Muslims do not support islamic terrorists,