Former President Olusegun Obasanjo (left) and Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, during their meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State …yesterday.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi have urged the Federal Government to create special courts to “deal promptly with cases of banditry, kidnapping, ransom demands and unlawful carrying of weapons.”
During a closed-door meeting yesterday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, they also agreed that, “hardened criminals must be hard hit with stick while imploring government to punish anybody illegally carrying arms in the country.
Both leaders, in a communiqué issued at the end of parley, traced the root causes of insecurity in Nigeria to “educational and economic disparities, as well as negative use of religion and ethnicity by unscrupulous politicians.”