Kaduna-based Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Tuesday sought authorities permission to strategy and converse to bandits who’ve kidnapped about 287 schoolchildren from Kuriga Authorities Secondary Faculties and LEA Major Faculties in Chikun Native Authorities Space of the state.
The Muslim cleric confused that dialogue was the suitable alternative and known as on President Bola Tinubu to take a special strategy from his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who rejected dialogue.
The PONS stories that bandits invaded Kuriga space of Chikun Native Authorities Space of Kaduna State, capturing at their victims earlier than taking away at the very least 280 college students and academics from each colleges.
The incident occurred barely 24 hours after insurgents kidnapped 200 internally displaced girls in Borno State.
The ladies had been kidnapped in Ngala, the headquarters of Gambarou Ngala in Borno State, whereas accumulating firewood within the bush.
Penultimate Thursday, bandits invaded Gonin-Gora in the identical Chikun LGA, prompting residents to barricade the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway in protest over the kidnapping of an unspecified variety of individuals within the space.
In the meantime, the federal government of the affected state has refused to have interaction in dialogue with the bandits to launch the schoolchildren and has additionally refuted claims that it had employed a non-public negotiator to facilitate the discharge of the victims.
Nevertheless, reacting to the event, Gumi stated in a press release: “The federal government's place of not negotiating with the bandits is an unlucky place. My recommendation is that the federal government mustn’t solely have interaction with the bandits on the kidnappings of those Kuriga faculty kids, however in all instances.
“Moreover, the federal government ought to undertake the identical strategy it took in releasing passengers kidnapped on the Abuja-Kaduna prepare in 2022, to launch the Kuriga schoolchildren and others.
“I’m prepared to steer a holistic dialogue between the federal government and the bandits. It’s my non secular responsibility to do that for peace.
“I hope the present administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will hear by partaking in dialogue with the bandits as a result of the earlier administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari refused to take action.”
Gumi had beforehand negotiated on behalf of state governments to free individuals kidnapped by bandits.
In Could 2021, one of many mother and father of the kidnapped college students of the Federal School of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna State, stated Nigerians ought to reward the cleric as an alternative of pointing an accusing finger at Gumi for being complicit within the banditry ravaging the nation. his interventions in in search of the discharge of kidnapped individuals within the nation.
