Jangebe students NOT kidnapped by my Zamfara bandits — Sheikh Gumi
Controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi said abductors of the Zamfara schoolgirls were not the bandits he recently met in Zamfara forests.
Recall that bandits stormed Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata-Mafara local government area of the state and abducted over 300 female students.
The gunmen were said to have arrived at the school around 1 am and loaded the girls in buses.
“They are not the ones that abducted the girls. It is a splinter group,” Gumi told The Nation on Friday.
When asked whether he would be going to Zamfara to meet the bandits for talks and plea for release of the school girls, Sheikh Gumi simply said, “maybe”.
The Islamic scholar has taken his peace message to bandits’ hideouts in Zamfara where about 500 of them were reported to have repented in the Shinkafi local government area.
Gumi and his delegation also met with bandits at Sububu forest and Pakai forests.
Gumi wants the Nigerian government to grant all bandits amnesty.
