A cross section of Nigerians has criticised the President
Muhammadu Buhari administration for not questioning and arresting Sheik Ahmad
Gumi over his alleged link to bandits.
Gumi had in an interview on Monday warned the government
against the killing of bandits, insisting that the criminals were victims too.
He insisted that no school was safe in the North West for
now until the government negotiated with the bandits.
His recent statement has raised questions of his involvement with the bandits and why the Buhari’s administration has failed to summon him for questioning.
Nigerians on social media expressed their worries over the
consistent demand by Gumi.
According to some, Gumi seems to know a lot about bandits
kidnapping students and should be brought in for questioning.
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They accused the government of injustice, adding that such
statements if made by an Igbo man would have landed him in DSS custody.
Here are some comments gathered from twitter
@Cacot1 “Sheik Gumi knows what DSS and other security
agencies in Nigeria don’t know about Bandits operations but he won’t be called for
questioning. Also, the central bank won’t freeze his account.”
@DoshimaJohn “What is Sheik Gumi’s stake in Banditry and
kidnapping? He sounds desperate over negotiations with bandits like a
businessman running out of business.”
@JulyEarth “Gumi is the brain behind the kidnappings can’t
tell me anything!
@Irokobiafra “And what is the government going to do about
this statement? Nothing I think!
@ChisomMbonu8 “This man has proven beyond reasonable doubt
that he knows and has hand in the insecurity facing the north, but because he’s
a Fulani man no one has the right to call him for questioning. All this will
pass and everyone will give account.”
@FS_Yusuf “Sheikh Gumi would rather 300 school children get
kidnapped than the military killing an islamist terrorist they deceitfully call
“bandits”.
“This can be easily inferred by his irrational advocacy for
the devilish group.”
@Ezepatricktwit1 “The chief negotiator to Bandits. Gumi, has
spoken by giving the Nigerian government Ultimatum. Do you see how these people
are making cool cash in the North? Can such a thing or statement take place
anywhere in the South, especially South-East.”
@DefenseNigeria “How Sheikh Gumi is a free man allowed to
work with bandits to squeeze hundreds of millions of naira from the Nigerian
government using the lives of innocent civilians as leverage is beyond me.”
@A_enemali “Gumi is an accomplice. There are no two words
about it.”
@Monnyx4 “If Gumi is from Southern part of the country he
would have been in jail along time, this is a formerly and highly referred
Islamic clerics who suppose to preach to the bandits with a view to stop their
Criminal pursuit now the Attorney General of these Criminals and Terrorist .”
@Egbayelo_levi “Cleric Gumi is an unfortunate cleric among
clerics in the North. He deserves the same faith like his Fulani bandits in the
forest. There’s no doubt that Gumi has bandits working for him in the forest.”
@Starlight4real “In your words the bandits have found a
lucrative way of finding money, so now Gumi you are saying that the government
should keep paying them off? For how long? The way this guy forces the federal
government to pay baffles me.”
@Polymat43955 “Isn’t it clear that this shamelessly amoral
Islamist cleric with his muddled up theology and horrendous moral philosophy is
a terror sympathetizer and an enabler and was never a solution provider.”
@TopeOgun2011 “The ways information is managed in Nigeria
quickens one’s withdrawal of patriotism. How does a government permit an
individual to issue such sensitive updates on criminals without being taken
through the process of the law? Well, this is Nigeria. Most of us are done!”
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