Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has questioned why no government official has visited Boko Haram terrorists and bandits to negotiate an end to their violence, drawing a comparison to how past leaders engaged Niger Delta militants.
He made the comparison in a Facebook post on Saturday, recalling how former President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo both visited militants in the creeks to broker peace. Gumi noted that both leaders had, at different times, gone into the creeks to meet militants and had returned with programmes designed to end the militancy in the region.
“The former President Jonathan visited delta militants in the creeks, so also the former vice president Osinbajo. They all came up with a program to tame the militants,” he wrote.
Sentencing and legal actions
This call follows the sentencing of three suspects — Abdulrazak Umar, also known as Abu Khalifa or Abu Khalid,
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