Sheikh Gumi canvasses land, cattle, heavy financial compensation for Boko Haram insurgents

Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has taken his advocacy to a new pedestal by declaring that the criminals have refused to end hostilities against the government and the Nigerian people because they were not given land and ‘enough money’.

According to Gumi, the past attempts “to broker peace” with the bandits had failed because the bandits were not compensated ‘with land, cattle or money big enough to help halt the hostilities’.

In a live stream on his Facebook page on Tuesday, the self-styled mediator for bandits said only religion can be used to pacify them to embrace peace.

Recall that Sheikh 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.

Contrary to Gumi’s stance, however, Governor Aminu Masari, of Katsina State, had openly admitted that Fulanis are the bandits killing and kidnapping Nigerians; adding that they (terrorists) don’t deserve amnesty.

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