‘They won’t have source of finance’ – Sheikh Gumi on why herdsmen can’t leave banditry 

An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has stated wherefore herdsmen cannot permission banditry.

Speaking during an interrogation connected AIT, Gumi the herdsmen would not person a root of financing their warfare instrumentality if they permission banditry.

He was speaking connected ‘Ending Insecurity; Amnesty and Negotiation with Bandits’.

According to him, the herdsmen person gone done a batch of hardship with nary authorities sitting down to look into their plights and modernize them.

He besides decried that nary authorities has spent thing connected them, stating that “Not 1 kobo of our Nigerian fund goes to them”.

Gumi further stated that the bandits are not surviving immoderate luxurious life, stressing that they sometimes portion from the stream.

The Islamic cleric said, “If they permission banditry, they won’t person a root of financing for their warfare machine.

“We are nether unit to combat the government. The authorities that has helicopters is bombarding us. So region the pressure, the request for the wealth is there.”

‘They won’t person root of finance’ – Sheikh Gumi connected wherefore herdsmen can’t permission banditry