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Gumi says declaration of bandits as terrorists won’t change dynamics on ground

Yusuf Abubakar
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Published: November 27, 2021
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A Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said that declaring bandits as terrorists will not have any practical value, noting that prior to the declaration, they were being fought and treated as terrorists.

Gumi said this in a statement issued by his media aide, Tukur Mamu, the Dan-Iyan Fika.

According to him, declaring the herdsmen bandits as terrorists is a decision taken for political expediency.

The cleric was reacting to a declaration made by a federal high court in Abuja that the activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups as acts of terrorism.

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He said the Federal government has succumbed to media blackmail by a section of the country.

“If you can remember IPOB was also declared a terrorist organisation. The declaration was even backed by an order of the court. But as you can see, even the international community did not recognise FG’s declaration of IPOB. So it has failed to be effective or to achieve the desired results, “ Gumi said.

“They have not been banned from travelling to other countries while their citizenship remains intact; it has not been denounced. So what type of declaration is that? 

“I sincerely hope that Nigerians will not take the herdsmen as terrorists but should regard the criminality of the few among them against innocent people as acts of terrorism, just as we see IPOB and their attacks on security agencies and other northern citizens as acts of terrorism. Very few herdsmen are bandits if you go through their population.

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“I hope this declaration will not give the license to people to be profiling herdsmen in general as terrorists and taking laws into their hands against them. It will cause more mayhem. 

“The declaration will not change anything, it will not change the dynamics. Already the military is engaging them. It didn’t stop them from kidnappings and killings. The declaration will not end their aggression against the society.

“The Fulani banditry is a socio-economic problem. We have seen it, we interacted widely with them. 

“We told the Federal Government the way out. It can only be won through engagement, dialogue and justice. That is why today there is relative peace in the Niger Delta because government accepted the painful reality of rehabilitating and empowering them.

“There has to be equitable distribution of wealth in Nigeria and justice for everyone. People don’t want to accept it. Before the issue of banditry that now affects all of us, the Fulanis have suffered so much.

“They have lost their legitimate means of livelihood, I mean their cows through cattle rustling and extortion by security agencies. That has to be addressed as a means of genuine reconciliation and integration. They should have a sense of belonging.”

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