Controversial Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Ahmad Gumi, has
disclosed why bandits are yet to release students of Greenfield University
abducted about two months ago.
Gumi said the students have not been released due to the
bandits link with Boko Haram.
Bandits had attacked the private university based in Kaduna
State on April 17 and abducted about 20 students.
While some of the students were released, the bandits had
killed five.
However, Gumi said Boko Haram has infiltrated the field of
kidnapping.
Speaking with Channels Television, the cleric said: “The
Greenfield abduction is unique because for the first time we saw a cooperation
between some bandits and Boko Haram elements which confirm that Boko Haram are
encroaching into the field, which is a bad situation.”
The controversial Islamic scholar said Boko Haram had
reached out to the abductors of hundreds of students of Government Science
College in Kankara, Katsina State, last year with an offer that the schoolboys
be sold to them because they could bargain better for ransom.
Gumi said the bandits, however, rejected the offer and
eventually released the students after negotiations.
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