Boko Haram: 100% Muslim Problem, Some Northerners Cooperating And Working To Protect Them – Sheik Gumi
A prominent Nigerian Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, has said that Boko Haram is 100 per cent a Muslim problem, accusing some people in the North of “cooperating with and working to protect them.”
Gumi said in the current April edition of The Interview, that, “Boko Haram as it is now cannot prosper in Ibadan because the locals will expose them. The same in Enugu. The people agitating for Biafra cannot prosper in the North because they will be exposed.
“We have to understand,” he said, “that these people are from amongst us and that the society was not doing enough to bring these elements out. I can tell you that Boko Haram is 100 per cent a Muslim problem.”
Mr. Gumi, who also described the agitation for Biafra as “analogue,” challenged Muslim leaders to do more to combat Boko Haram.
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Commenting on the controversial bill to regulate preaching in Kaduna State, Mr. Gumi said the bill had gone too far and was an infringement on the constitution.
“If you are trying to fight terrorism and extremism,” he said, “you don’t clamp on the freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of propagation of thoughts. These liberties are enshrined in the constitution.”
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, had said the bill was an updated version of an existing law required to curtail inflammatory sermons by faith leaders.
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The cleric also spoke on the military-Shiite clash in Zaria, the ongoing investigation into the $2.1billion arms scandal involving the former National Securuty Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
