By Seun Opejobi Controversial Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has reacted to terrorist attacks on the Guards Brigade in Abuja. ...
By Seun Opejobi
Controversial Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has reacted
to terrorist attacks on the Guards Brigade in Abuja.
Gumi said insecurity should be expected because President
Muhammadu Buhari rewards failure with an Ambassadorial appointment.
He was reacting to the Federal Government’s plan to sanction
the BBC Africa Eye and Daily Trust over their recent reports on the issue of
politics of insecurity.
A statement by Gumi blamed illiteracy for the insecurity in
the North.
“What do you expect from a society (Fulani) that was left in
total ignorance and lack of education, especially when their primary means of
livelihood (cattle) has been completely rustled by other criminal elements
within and outside our security agencies without any effort by the government
to address the injustice.
“As I talk to you now, cattle rustling has not stopped. Many
law-abiding Fulanis have fallen victims to the official extortion of their
cows. I have well-documented evidence involving some security agents in which I
personally intervened. How do you expect as a government to address insecurity,
especially related to Fulani bandits without addressing such instances of
extortion and rustling?
“When a Commander-in-Chief rewards failure with
ambassadorial appointments in a system and a society that records increased
attacks, when security agencies cannot even protect Abuja and especially when
the Guards Brigade cannot even protect themselves not to talk of the President,
then why blame the media for such failure and ineptitude for reporting it?” the
cleric queried.
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