Sheikh Gumi Promoting Banditry In Northern Nigeria – IMO CAN Chairman

The Christian organisation demanded an intensive probe on the actions of Sheikh Gumi, expressing considerations that the safety crises and banditry within the north could be extended because the Almajiri system continued unchecked.

The Christian Affiliation of Nigeria (CAN) has accused Kaduna State-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, of being chargeable for the rising actions of bandits within the northern a part of the nation.

The Christian organisation demanded an intensive probe on the actions of Sheikh Gumi, expressing considerations that the safety crises and banditry within the north could be extended because the Almajiri system continued unchecked.

The Imo State CAN Chairman, Rev Dr Divine Eches, raised the considerations in an interview in Abuja forward of its forty fifth anniversary and Founder’s Day scheduled for Friday in Owerri.

He suggested that the Nigerian authorities ought to warning Sheikh Gumi whose utterances, he stated, had emboldened the bandits, thereby selling their inhumane acts within the North.

He maintained that besides drastic measures have been taken to curb the Almajiri system, banditry would stay in northern Nigeria for a very long time with devastating results on the socio-economic lives of the individuals.

He stated, “You possibly can’t have the Almajiri system of life and authorities within the final 40 years in our nation, citing individuals with none hint to households, hometowns or nationalities. These youngsters are scattered everywhere in the streets, with out you figuring out that sometime, they would depart the streets and go to the bush the place they might start to do the commerce of kidnapping.

“Additionally, you may’t, in a sane nation, have the likes of Sheikh Gumi, a non secular scholar, going about selling banditry and also you don’t assume that it will proceed. But, that’s what we’re seeing right now. We’re not seeing something greater than what now we have planted.

“We allowed this factor (insecurity) to proceed and it’s now going to devour the nation if drastic measures will not be put in place to take them (Almajiri) out of the streets. Give them a way of belonging, put them at school, and assist them realise their potential.

“These bandits have been the Almajiri who was once in entrance of our homes and begging. Howbeit, we’re praying and that’s the reason God continues to be sustaining our nation. I belief God will proceed to maintain us in Jesus identify.”