Declare Bandits As Terrorists, End Nigeria – Gumi Tells Buhari
Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi on Sunday warned President Muhammadu Buhari against declaring bandits as terrorists, stressing that such a move would be disastrous as it will mark the end of Nigeria as a united entity.
Gumi, who visited and interacted with bandits in the different forests, posted on his Facebook wall on Sunday night that President Buhari’s labelling the bandits as terrorists will only succeed in attracting additional consequences that will consume the country.
Gumi, a retired Major of the Nigerian Army, pointedly warned that Nigeria would stop existing as a sovereign and united entity if the Federal Government declared bandits as terrorists.
The Islamic cleric admitted that the devastation caused by bandits in the Northwest geopolitical zone amounted to acts of terrorism, adding however that despite the devastation, proscribing bandits would lead to severe consequences that will consume the country.
In his words; “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.
“Many teaming unemployed youths may find it palatable and attractive. Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ plus AK47 against a ‘secular’ immoral society where impunity reigns are the magnet for extremists and downtrodden – the majority of our youth.
“Already these deadly terrorist groups are fighting for the soul of these bandits.
“This will give criminality a spiritual cover and remove the stigma of discrediting them with such crimes since now they are fighting a ‘Jihad’ as they will claim.
“NE is already and is still devastated by this madness for over 12 years. If we allow, terror to set in into these raw naïve unexposed bandits, NW will be in ruins sooner than later.
“Turn bandits into religious zealots. Tell me, what then remains of Nigeria?”
Gumi further said that the moment bandits are designated as terrorists, Islamic for that matter, the direct foreign Jihadist movements will set in in force.
He said that since Boko Haram has already gripped the North-East, separatist agitators in the South-East and South-West will easily seize on the lawlessness sweeping the northern regions.
He further said; “NE is already and is still devastated by this madness for over 12 years. If we allow, terror, to set in into these raw naïve unexposed bandits, NW will be in ruins sooner than later.
“Already IPOB are destroying SE, and Igboho has set the ball of confusion rolling in SW. For those who want to destroy the NW, it’s a good recipe,” he said.
