A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno
Omokri, says popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, is facilitating
banditry and not promoting peace as believed many.
He also said Sheikh Gumi was sowing the seed of discord in
the country and inciting Muslims against Christians by telling bandits that
Muslim soldiers were the ones neutralising them.
He, therefore, urged the Department of State Services to
summon the cleric and question him for incitement.
Omokri, a critic of the regime of the President, Muhammadu Buhari , spoke on Wednesday while featuring on a PUNCH
Online interview programme, The Roundtable.
“Sheikh Gumi should be answering questions with the DSS,” he
said, adding, “Sheikh Gumi should be summoned by the DSS to back up his claim
that Christian soldiers are the ones killing Muslims.”
Of late, Sheikh Gumi has been seen in photos holding talks
with notorious bandits in the forests of Zamfara, Niger and other states. He
had also advocated blanket amnesty for the bandits like was done for the
militants in the Niger Delta region.
Sheikh Gumi had said bandits had only killed a “few” people
accidentally, adding that they killed for “revenge”.
Sheikh Gumi’s latest comment attracted outrage on social
media with many users describing him as the spokesperson for bandits in the
country.
Speaking on Wednesday, Omokri said it was unthinkable that
Sheikh Gumi was still allowed to move freely by the Buhari regime which had
summoned a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah
Mailafia, over his comments on notorious terror group, Boko Haram.
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