Zamfara Bandits I Met Not Responsible For School Girls Abduction — Gumi

Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said abductors of the
Zamfara schoolgirls were not the bandits he recently engaged within
Zamfara forests.

Recall reported bandits stormed Government Secondary School
Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area around 1am Friday
and abducted over 300 female students.

Zamfara Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji
Abubakar Dauran, confirmed the abduction to News Agency of Nigeria
but could not confirm the number of the students abducted as at
press time.

Gumi, in a short telephone interview with The Nation, said the
abduction was carried out by a splinter group of the Zamfara
bandits.

The Islamic scholar, who appeared to have reached out to the
bandit leaders he recently met, stated categorically “They are not
the ones that abducted the girls. It is a splinter group.”

When asked whether he would be going to Zamfara to meet the
bandits for talks and plea for release of the school girls, Sheikh
Gumi simply said, “maybe”.

The Islamic scholar has taken his peace message to bandits
hideouts in Zamfara where about 500 were reported to have repented
in Shinkafi local government area.

Tthe renowned Islamic scholar and his delegation also met with
bandits at Sububu forest and Pakai forests.

Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said abductors of the
Zamfara schoolgirls were not the bandits he recently engaged within
Zamfara forests.

Recall reported bandits stormed Government Secondary School
Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area around 1am Friday
and abducted over 300 female students.

Zamfara Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji
Abubakar Dauran, confirmed the abduction to News Agency of Nigeria
but could not confirm the number of the students abducted as at
press time.

Gumi, in a short telephone interview with The Nation, said the
abduction was carried out by a splinter group of the Zamfara
bandits.

The Islamic scholar, who appeared to have reached out to the
bandit leaders he recently met, stated categorically “They are not
the ones that abducted the girls. It is a splinter group.”

When asked whether he would be going to Zamfara to meet the
bandits for talks and plea for release of the school girls, Sheikh
Gumi simply said, “maybe”.

The Islamic scholar has taken his peace message to bandits
hideouts in Zamfara where about 500 were reported to have repented
in Shinkafi local government area.

Tthe renowned Islamic scholar and his delegation also met with
bandits at Sububu forest and Pakai forests.