Ahmad Gumi the Islamic cleric notes that bandits have refused to stop hostilities against the Nigerian government because they were not offered land and “enough money”.
Mr Gumi said previous attempts “to broker peace” with the bandits did not succeed because they were not compensated “with lands or cattle or money big enough to help halt hostilities.”
He also added that sometimes the government would “just give them (bandits) a million or two million and get their weapons without even looking at how they survive.”
In a live stream on his Facebook page on Tuesday, the self-appointed mediator for bandits affirmed only religion can be used to pacify them to embrace peace.
Mr Gumi had once compared bandits to Niger Delta militants and asked that a federal ministry be established to address their grievances and that of killer Fulani herders.
In contrary view of Mr Gumi’s Katsina Governor Aminu Masari, openly admitting that Fulanis are the bandits killing and kidnapping Nigerians, said they don’t deserve amnesty.
