A Christian body, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.(PFN) South West zone has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, saying he is a suspect.
The body said Islamic scholar’s utterances and his stout defence of activities of bandits depicted as one of their leaders, particularly when he urged the Federal Government not to declare bandits as terrorists.
PFN recalled Gumi’s romance with bandits and how he got sad, each time there was no opportunities for him to negotiate or when the Federal Government was about to take drastic step to end banditry.
The PFN stated this in Lagos after a meeting of State Chapters from the South West Nigeria.
Leader of PFN, Archbishop John Osa-Oni, PFN said Gumi’s utterances portrayed a questionable character who should be arrested and investigated, arguing if he was to be a Christian leader, he would have been arrested.
On his part, the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Metropolitan See, Dr. Alfred Martins, has urged the Federal Government to harness all available resources to tackle insecurity facing the country.
The bishop made the call, yesterday, during the Nigeria Catholic Diocesan Priests’ Association (NCDPA) 2021 yearly general meeting, at St. Leo Catholic Church, Ikeja, Lagos.
Martins told newsmen at the event that the country’s problems were enormous and were mostly due to the inability of leaders to harness available resources for the country’s good.
He blamed politicians for using religion as a tool to divide Nigerians and allow insecurity to thrive.
BUT Chief of Army Staff, Maj-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, has said that non-kinetic approach is very essential in combating insurgency, banditry and other criminal activities in the country.
Meanwhile, speaking at the symposium organised by the Centre for Security and Legal Studies University of Abuja, Yahaya noted various forms of insecurity in parts of the country as Boko Haram in the North East, banditry in the North West and North Central, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) agitations in the South East, illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta and others.
To achieve the mandate of his office, the Nigerian army has been engaged in various joint operations, he added.
