A popular Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, had alleged that Nigerian military authorities don’t want the fight against insurgency and banditry to end because of the huge funds allocated to tackle insecurity.
Gumi has been visiting leaders of bandit groups in the forest in an attempt to negotiate peace deals with them.
In a conversation with Seth B. Kajang of "The INTERVIEW" on Sunday, Gumi said, “The military is not encouraging matters at all because they are the beneficiaries of this insecurity.
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“Nobody can justify criminality. Criminality is criminality, there is no word that can justify it. But just look at it, IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra), they never had the Nigerian Air Force bombing them, Niger Delta militants never had the Nigerian Air Force bombing them.
“The bandits are complaining mostly against the military killing innocent people. They resorted to buying arms. How did they get the arms? They resorted to kidnapping people which is an end result of these military actions.
“Look, they are ready to drop these arms and return back to the fold of the Nigerians just for simple things; schools, hospitals, water.
“And there is an allegation: the military doesn’t want this conflict to end because of the billions of naira they claim for fighting insurgency. So, the military is not cooperating.
“I praise the police and the Inspector-General of Police. I give him credit for assisting us to go and meet these people, but the military is not forthcoming, they are not cooperating, I don’t know why.”
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February 15, 2021
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