Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said abductors of the
Zamfara schoolgirls were not the bandits he recently engaged with in Zamfara
forests.
Recall bandits stormed Government Secondary
School Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area around 1am Friday and
abducted over 300 female students.
Zamfara Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji
Abubakar Dauran, confirmed the abduction to News Agency of Nigeria but could
not confirm the number of the students abducted as at press time.
Gumi, in a short telephone interview with The Nation, said the abduction was carried out by a splinter group of the Zamfara bandits.
The Islamic scholar, who appeared to have reached out to the
bandit leaders he recently met, stated categorically “They are not the ones
that abducted the girls. It is a splinter group.”
When asked whether he would be going to Zamfara to meet the
bandits for talks and plea for release of the school girls, Sheikh Gumi simply
said, “maybe”.
The Islamic scholar has taken his peace message to bandits
hideouts in Zamfara where about 500 were reported to have repented in Shinkafi
local government area.
Tthe renowned Islamic scholar and his delegation also met
with bandits at Sububu forest and Pakai forests.
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