Abubakar Gumi: Bandits saving to obtain anti-plane missiles
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| Gumi claimed that the bandits have collaborators within the armed forces |
The popular Islamic cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, has disclosed that bandits running in the northern states forests are making plans to gather anti-plane missiles to repeal assaults via way of means of the military.
Gumi, who lately went into forests in Zamfara State, to talk about with the bandits who've killed and rendered many humans homeless, stated his interplay with the bandits confirmed that they have interaction in kidnapping and series of ransom for the motive of elevating cash to shop for weapons.
The bandits have been sufferers looking for justice, pointing out it became crucial for government to fulfill with them urgently earlier than they come to be religiously radicalised and uncontrollable just like the Boko Haram insurgents, The cleric stated.
The cleric stated: "These humans have been the first sufferers of cows rustling, who misplaced all their cows to rustlers due to the fact then, the rustlers had been having the guns. Then after they misplaced their cows, they joined the rustlers and that they commenced to kidnap humans."
"Actually, the majority of the kidnappings, the bandits are doing it to accumulate guns. They at the moment are attempting to shop for missiles, anti-plane missiles.".
"This is already growing right into a full-blown insurgency and we have to forestall that. And what we're terrified of is that in the event that they emerge as religiously radicalised, it'll provide upward thrust to any other dimension, and it will likely be very tough to control. You see what Boko Haram has emerge as."
He stated the bandits have been now no longer being subsidized through politicians or overseas collaborators.
According to him, the bandits advanced weapons had been received with proceeds of kidnapping and now no longer given to them through politicians or overseas collaborators.
He stated: "Like I stated, they may be amassing ransoms to shop for weapons. Look on the herdsmen in Oyo and south eastern states. They aren't shopping for skyscrapers or driving Mercedes; they're however within the bush. They don’t need cash. They need their cows, now no longer cash.
"They are doing that kidnapping to elevate cash simply to shop for weapons to repel helicopters and airplanes and to assault every person that is going to assault them.
“You need to apprehend the psychology of those human beings. They aren't like our governors which might be stealing cash. They don’t need cash. For them, cow is higher than cash."
Gumi claimed that the bandits have collaborators within the armed forces.
He stated: "They have collaborators everywhere within the armed forces, everywhere. One of them stated, Even this cows rustling, we don’t have trailers to move cows to wherein they're slaughtered. We don’t have an abattoir."
"Hence, there are those who are collaborators with them. Even the abduction of the humans, they stated, We don’t recognize those human beings; it's far the human beings on the town so that it will inform us a sure person has cash."
The cleric warned that if the government didn't act fast, banditry, which, for now, is basically restrained to the North, might additionally unfold to the South.
Gumi maintained that the fine technique to resolve the banditry hassle changed into thru talk and granting amnesty to the bandits in place of the use of army might.
He stated: "These bandits realize the way to organise themselves and guard themselves and that they have commenced attacking villages all around. Once you contact one in all them, the entire of them will come collectively to assault a village. They mobilise themselves via the bush. So, it isn't always properly to assault them, surely speaking.
The Hausa are struggling and that they have consequently stopped attacking the Fulani herdsmen. So, we have to now no longer assault them. We must simply pacify them and they're a completely shy humans. If you meet them, they're very shy."