A controversial Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari Federal Government, in a bid to curtailing the crimes of armed bandits of Fulani extraction, to support other splinter groups among the bandits, .
He said that this would help to end the uncontrollable mass abductions of School Students and Staff, especially in the Northern region.
Sheikh Gumi, who spoke to The PUNCH, on Wednesday, on the abduction of some Islamiyya Schoolchildren, in Rafi Local Government Area, Niger State, revealed that many of the bandits are ready for dialogue, adding that, the government could use them to fight the “ugly ones”.
His words: “We are always trying to do our best, but you see, you need two hands to shake. You know these people (bandits) need engagements from the government itself. If you dialogue with them without the involvement of the government, it is a problem.
“Government needs to be proactive with them. We have a lot of them that are ready to fight the bad ones. Use the bad to fight the ugly, and use the good to fight the bad ones, when you are done with the ugly. Look at boko haram, who finished Shekau? Was it not the splinter group? So, it is easy.
“All these agitations you see, if the government can do a splinter group and the splinter group is empowered, every man wants power and money, they will do your job. There are many ready to submit themselves. All the ones you see me meeting in the bush, they are all telling us, ‘we are ready’.”