The Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr.
Samuel Chukwuemeka Kanu-Uche has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to pay
repentant Boko Haram members and bandits N25, 000 monthly stipends.
Kanu-Uche said hunger and poverty made the Northerners
embrace terror and banditry.
He stressed that the payment of such stipends would stop
youths from engaging in terrorism.
Addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, the cleric
appealed to the Federal Government not to underestimate the influence Sheikh
Ahmad Gumi in the fight against banditry.
He pointed out that Gumi could help the government develop
measures in tackling banditry in the North.
Kanu-Uche said Gumi’s access to bandits in the North could
be used as an advantage to beat them into submission.
The Kaduna-based Islamic scholar had severally met with the
leadership of bandits in their locations.
Recently, Gumi had urged government to grant them blanket
amnesty.
However, the Methodist Prelate said: “Who are those
collecting ransom for bandits? If the government rather than criticising Gumi,
engages him positively, he can bring a solution. You don’t dismiss him and say
he is a bad man.
”If he goes to the bush and they (bandits) have confidence
in him, the government can dialogue with them.
“Let me tell you, these boys are being used by politicians.
I am telling you to quote me.
“If you engage them and be paying them N25,000 monthly, they
will not kidnap. All they want is food.”
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