The ongoing fight against bandits and terrorists is a total waste of time and resources as they have nothing to lose.
The Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi disclosed this in a Statement said to have been posted on Facebook recently.
According to him, the bandits were engaging in a war of revenge and as such, do not mind being killed while others would still spring up to continue the fight.
Speaking further, Gumi wondered why Nigerian Christian leaders should involve outsiders in an internal conflicts which are mostly herders-farmers conflict and warned Trump that carrying out the threat of invading Nigeria will be fruitless.
Sheikh Gumi who is said to be at the forefront of negotiating with the terrorists and bandits, imploring them to drop their weapons and embrace peace, painfully complain that his efforts are being thwarted by the threats of war against them.
He stressed that when the Nigerian military were busy striking the terrorists, he had been going into the forests to talk to them, build schools for and empower them but just when his efforts are about to yield results, the US in conjunction with some Nigerian Christian leaders are trying to frustrate him.
“When I ventured into the forests to understand the roots of banditry and the true nature of what we are facing, I met teenagers—strangers to education—armed with sophisticated weapons and driven by drugs,” he wrote.
“As a former military officer, I know the strength of our armed forces. But I also know this: we cannot win a war against people who have nothing to lose.
“These are not civilised men. They have been corrupted by external influences, stripped of meaning, and robbed of the very sense of life itself. History has shown that no one truly wins against such despair.
