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If President Muhammadu Buhari's government declares bandits as terrorists, Nigeria will cease to exist, controversial Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi has warned.
Sheikh Gumi, who gave the warning on Sunday night in a facebook post said, the country would stop existing as a sovereign and united entity if the federal government declared bandits as terrorists.
He also said the destruction or devastation carried out by the bandits in the North West amounted to terrorism.
The cleric opined that despite the destruction by bandits, proscribing them as terrorists will result to dire consequences that would consume the entire country.
He said: “The acts the bandits are committing now in NW have gradually over time become tantamount to terrorism because wherever innocent people are fatal victims it’s pure terrorism.
“Many teaming unemployed youths may find it palatable and attractive. Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ plus AK47 against a ‘secular’ immoral society where impunity reigns are the magnet for extremists and downtrodden – the majority of our youth. Already these deadly terrorist groups are fighting for the soul of these bandits.
“This will give criminality a spiritual cover and remove the stigma of discrediting them with such crimes since now they are fighting a ‘Jihad’ as they will claim.
“NE is already and is still devastated by this madness for over 12 years. If we allow, terror, to set in into these raw naïve unexposed bandits, NW will be in ruins sooner than later.
“Turn bandits into religious zealots. Tell me, what then remains of Nigeria?”
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