…Advises Gumi not to waste time negotiating with bandits
…Notes they are used to big money, will not repent
…Laments lack of unity among N/W govs
…Declares Kaduna’s at war with bandits
…Troops recover weapons from bandits belonging to Kachalla’s group
By Ibrahin HassanWuyo
Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday disagreed with prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh Gumi, that the federal government should dialogue with bandits, instead of waging war against them.
After meeting with the bandits in the forest in Zamfara State, Sheikh Gumi had asked the federal government to use security budget to address the bandits’ demands, claiming that most of them had lost all their possessions to cattle rustling and extortion