Gumi renews case for reward of crime, urges FG to pay bandits $2m, cattle, land to cease hostilities

An Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has renewed his case for reward of crime by the Nigerian government, saying that the bandits cannot end hostilities except they are rewarded with sufficient money, lands, and cattle. The Islamic scholar maintained that the bandits have resisted to end their war against the Nigerian government since they have not been given land and “enough money.”

Gumi insisted that the federal government would “simply give them a million or two million dollars and collect their weapons without even considering how they survive.”

Gumi emphasized that efforts to “broker peace” with the bandits failed because they were not compensated “with lands, animals, or money large enough to help cease hostilities.”

The Islamic scholar, in a live webcast on his Facebook page, had stated that only religion can persuade the bandits to embrace peace.

President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to ignore the urge from the National Assembly to declare bandits as terrorists after their violent ravaging of northwest Nigeria.