Banditry will end in the north soon - Sheik Gumi predicts

Popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has expressed optimism in banditry and kidnapping becoming history in Zamfara state and the north.

Gumi gave this assurance on Monday, February 2, during his visit to Zamfara state on a dialogue session with bandits willing to drop their weapons.

The cleric said peace will find its way back into the north and Nigeria, adding that efforts have been intensified to also find a long-lasting peace to the farmer-herder crisis, TVC News reports.

Gumi and his team have been touring some northern states in a move that is believed will help the government in bringing an end to insurgency and banditry.

On his visit to Zamfara, he was received by the commissioner for security and other members of the state executive council.

Legit.ng observes that Gunmi, a mufassir (the chief preacher) at the Kaduna central mosque Sultan Bello, commands huge respect and influence in the north.

His team, in the company of other clerics, will visit Maradun Ruggah settlement established by Governor Bello Matawalle’s administration to address farmer-herder crises in the state.