Nigeria’s Islamic scholar, Shiekh Ahmad Gumi has alleged that the military does not want insurgency as well as insecurity in general to end because, according to him, they are benefiting from the huge funds being allocated to it.
ASHENEWS recalls that Gumi recently embarked on advocacy visits to bandits in the forests of Zamfara state, purportedly to convince them lay down their arms and embrace peace.
Speaking on AriseTV programme on Thursday, Gumi disclosed that from his recent meeting with some of the bandits, they were ready to cooperate if government was ready to make necessary provision for their lives.
The Shiekh said that the military was not encouraging such moves because they were benefiting from insecurity.
“The military is not encouraging matters at all because they are the beneficiaries of this insecurity,” he said.
“Nobody can justify criminality. Criminality is criminality, there is no word that can justify it. But just look at it, IPOB they never had the Nigerian Airforce bombing them, Niger Delta militants never had the Nigerian Airforce bombing them.
“They (the vandits) are complaining mostly against the military killing innocent people. They resorted to buying arms. How did they get the arms? They resorted to kidnapping people which is an end result of these military actions.
“Look, they are ready to drop these arms and return back to the fold of the Nigerians just for simple things; schools, hospitals, water.
“And there is an allegation: the military don’t want this conflict to end because of the billions of Naira they claim for fighting insurgency. So the military is not cooperating.
“I praise the police and the Inspector-general of Police. I give him credit for assisting us to go and meet these people, but the military is not forthcoming, they are not cooperating, I don’t know why,” he told ARISE News
