Gumi: My meeting with security agents productive

Gumi: My meeting with security agents productive

Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, says he has met with security agencies who invited him over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country.

He said the interaction with them was productive.

Information minister Mohammed Idris on Monday disclosed that security had invited Gumi over his remarks.

In a social media post on Tuesday, the cleric described his meeting with security agents as a “productive interaction on how to curb banditry”.

Gumi said “only one person is above the law: the innocent”.

“Last night I got many frantic calls from well-wishers and journalists about a news item that I was interviewed by security. There is absolutely no cause for alarm,” he wrote.

“Yes, we had a productive interaction on how to curb banditry as we are all trying — each in his own sphere — to tackle the monster bedevilling the nation. There was no animosity but courtesy and full of respect.

“We all need as a nation to unite and work in synergy to achieve an everlasting peace.”

Gumi has been photographed with various bandit groups on numerous occasions as he advocated amnesty for remorseful terrorists.

He also said only a court could determine who is a terrorist in reaction to government’s release of a list of terrorist financiers for prosecution

This made some Nigerians to call on security agencies to arrest the cleric over his alleged ties with terrorist groups.