Gumi to Tinubu, don’t act like Buhari, negotiate with bandits

The Islamic cleric insisted that dialogue was the best approach, calling on President Bola Tinubu to adopt a unique method from his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who rejected it.

Findings by Foxiz NIGERIA show that bandits invaded the Kuriga space of the Chikun community of Kaduna State, capturing their victims earlier and taking away at least 280 of the pupils and academics from each college.

The incident occurred barely 24 hours after insurgents kidnapped 200 internally displaced girls in Borno State.

The ladies had been kidnapped in Ngala, the headquarters of Gambarou Ngala in Borno State while fetching firewood within the bush.

Penultimate Thursday, bandits invaded the Gonin-Gora in the identical Chikun LGA, prompting residents to barricade the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway in protest towards the kidnapping of an unspecified variety of individuals within the space.

In the meantime, the federal government of the affected state has refused to dialogue with the bandits to launch the schoolchildren. It has additionally refuted claims that it had employed a non-public negotiator to facilitate the discharge of the victims.

Reacting to the event, Gumi stated in an announcement, “The federal government’s stand of no negotiation with the bandits is an unlucky place. My recommendation is that the federal government should dialogue with the bandits not just for these Kuriga faculty youngsters’ abductions but in all circumstances.

“Additionally, the federal government ought to use the identical method it utilized in releasing passengers that had been kidnapped on the Abuja–Kaduna practice in 2022 to launch the Kuriga faculty youngsters and others.

“I’m prepared to steer a holistic dialogue between the federal government and bandits. It’s my spiritual responsibility to take action for peace.

“I hope the current authorities of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will listen by dialoguing with the bandits, as the previous administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari refused to take action.”

Gumi had negotiated on behalf of state governments to free kidnapped individuals by bandits.

In Could 2021, one of many dad and mom of the kidnapped college students of the Federal School of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, stated relatively than level an accusing finger at Gumi for being complicit within the banditry ravaging the nation, Nigerians ought to commend the cleric for his interventions in searching for the discharge of kidnapped individuals within the country.