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Banditry Hasn’t Paralysed Nigeria, People Still Travel Despite Frequent Attacks – Gumi

Oluwafemi Ashaolu by Oluwafemi Ashaolu
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Ahmad Gumi, popular Islamic cleric, says banditry has not brought Nigeria to its knees, saying people still travel despite frequent attacks.

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Gumi said this while dismissing claims that government officials and the elites are behind the increased activities of banditry in the north.

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He also said bandits use proceeds from kidnapping to purchase arms and settle informants.

The lslamic scholar stated that bandits are fighting ethnic and not ideological war.

“That was a small metamorphosis in the process, but now the bulk of the money they collect is used to buy weapons. Bandits are independent now, and nobody influences them. In fact, they buy informants now, and they are fighting an ethnic war which makes it easier because they are not fighting for ideology”, Gumi said.

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Gumi maintained that the current state of insecurity is not enough to paralyse Nigeria.

He pointed out that the number of those involved in banditry and kidnapping are small compared to the population of the country.

“There is a high state of insecurity, but it has not reached the state where it will paralyse Nigeria. We still travel around despite more frequent and sporadic attacks.

“The issue has not got to the stage of paralysing Nigeria. The active people involved are few, and I do not think they are more than 10, 000 actively engaged in kidnapping among the herdsmen”, he said.

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He insisted that the Federal Government should engage bandits in a roundtable discussion, with a view to end the menace.

“Government should do the right thing, and honestly speaking, Nigerians have to swallow these bitter pills which is getting these people on a table and set in place a machinery to rehabilitate them,” he added.

 

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