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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Controversial Islamic Scholar, Ahmad Gumi on Monday described the kidnapping of school children by bandits as lesser evil.<\/p>\n

Gumi said kidnapping school students was a lesser evil when compared to the ransacking of towns and killing of its residents.<\/p>\n

He made the remark while featuring on BBC Pidgin.<\/p>\n

The cleric also stated that his meetings was yielding positive results as bandits are now careful about human lives.<\/p>\n

According to Gumi: \u201cKidnapping children from school is a lesser evil because in the end, you can negotiate and now bandits are very careful about human lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, the mission of bandits was to go into a town, ransack it and kill people. By this, I can say our preaching is working and hopefully, we are coming to an end of banditry in Zamfara and other states.<\/p>\n

\u201cBandits are more careful about lives now and just want to do sensational attacks which would bring attention to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lately, the activities of banditry has been on the rise in the Northern part of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Recall that Gumi had appealed to the federal government to grant amnesty to bandits.<\/p>\n

The Islamic Scholar had said amnesty to bandits would help calm down the tensed insecurity situation in the North.<\/p>\n

Buhari has, however, vowed not to grant amnesty to bandits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Controversial Islamic Scholar, Ahmad Gumi on Monday described the kidnapping of school children by bandits as lesser evil. Gumi said kidnapping school students was a lesser evil when compared to the ransacking of towns and killing of its residents. He made the remark while featuring on BBC Pidgin. 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