Terrorism: Change approach, give bandits amnesty like repentant Boko Haram – Gumi to Nigerian govt

Ahmad Gumi, an Islamic person from Kaduna, has suggested that the national authorities should deliberation astir offering amnesty to equipped bandits.

Addressing a property league astatine his location successful Kaduna on Monday, Gumi stated that the state should usage the aforesaid rehabilitation method for those who person turned distant from Boko Haram and surrendered to the military.

He pointed retired that Nigeria’s semipermanent usage of subject powerfulness has not succeeded successful stopping banditry and insurgency.

Gumi said: “If the kinetic method hasn’t been effectual for 17 years, wherefore not effort a antithetic method? Let’s alteration the method.

“What Katsina did was to bring successful the bandits, springiness them money, and past fto them permission with the rebels. Why don’t we alteration the method? Let’s prosecute them.

“Let’s dislodge them from the forest. Let’s instrumentality their kids and enroll them successful school. Let’s bash thing antithetic but you know, erstwhile you privation wealth to beryllium used, erstwhile you privation a fund to beryllium spent, that’s erstwhile it volition happen.”

Gumi noted that the officials person not focused capable connected plans for helping erstwhile insurgents reintegrate and rehabilitate, adjacent though galore person fixed themselves up implicit the years.

He said that immoderate bandits person said they would beryllium acceptable to springiness up their weapons if they are promised information from being arrested oregon facing revenge.

Gumi said: “These peop...