It's insulting to compare bandits with freedom fighters, IPOB replies Sheik Gumi * Says those advocating integration of terrorists should be investigated

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It’s insulting to compare bandits with freedom fighters, IPOB replies Sheik Gumi

* Says those advocating integration of terrorists should be investigated

By Steve Oko

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has lambasted an Islamic scholar, Alhaji Sheik Gumi for allegedly comparing bandits and terrorists with freedom fighters.

Gumi had last week visited bandits in Zamfara forests where he held discussions with them and allegedly preached to them.

The Islamic cleric had later in a media remark, advocated amnesty for the bandits, likening them to agitators of self autonomy and Niger Delta militants that were granted amnesty.

But IPOB in a swift reaction to the statement credited to Gumi, accused the Islamic cleric of assuming the role of a mouthpiece for the bandits.

The pro-Biafra movement in a press statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, called for proper investigation of Sheik Gumi over the real motive behind his mission to the bandits’ camp.

Below is the text of the under the leadership of our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu:

” We the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, read with incredulity, a provocative remark credited to a so-called acclaimed Islamic cleric in the mould of Sheik Gumi, that bandits and freedom fighters are the same.

“Gumi in the said media report, allegedly compared agitators of Biafra and Oduduwa republics with Fulani bandits rampaging the North and ravaging the entire South. Such a statement if true, has simply unmasked and exposed the real identify of this man masquerading as an Islamic cleric.

“With such ignorance-ladden uttrance from a supposed Islamic scholar, the world does not need to look far for the real sponsors of banditry and terrorism in Nigeria. Do we now know those behind the killing spree and evil agenda to decimate indigenous ethnic populations and non-muslim communities across Nigeria?

“Before now Nigerians were deceived into believing that bandits and other agents of terror on rampage all over Nigeria were invisible and without a fixed address. How come this pretender and self-acclaimed Islamic cleric knew where to find the bandits?

“He even posed for a picture with gun weilding murderers and was very proud of it. How was it that this man managed to locate the hideout of these mass murderers but Nigeria Airforce cannot?

“How come there hasn’t been any invasion or bombing of any of these Bandit settlements in the North but the same Nigeria Airforce is quick to deploy fighter jets against innocent citizens in Orlu?

“Not only did Sheik Gumi wine and dine with the bandits, he has also suddenly become their advocate. He has gone to the extent of comparing blood suckers with self-determination activists. What a national embarrassment!

“So Sheik Gumi can no longer differentiate between self determination which is a constitutionally guaranteed right and terrorism which is a crime?

“This hypocrisy has confirmed our earlier position that terrorism and banditry in Nigeria are common agenda of the same people. ISWAP, bandits and Fulani herdsmen are one and the same people whose common aim is to decimate the indigenous populations in Nigeria and ultimately Fulanise the country.

“It’s an insult to freedom fighters all over the world to be compared with blood-sucking demons in human clothing like herdsmen. If we may ask Gumi, going by his lame argument, is Nicola Sturgeon the leader of Scotland a terrorist or bandit?

” We want to let Gumi and bandits to understand that Biafrans will never allow Fulani to take any inch of Biafraland under the guise of one Nigeria fake unity.

” Do we assume that the world now knows those to be held responsible for the daily blood bath in Nigeria? Gumi should know that those holding meetings with killers and advocating integration of bandits and other terrorists group into an imaginary amnesty program” may be “nothing but their sponsors.

“Other ethnic groups and nationalities may fall or capitulate before the hegemonic might of the Fulani caliphate in Nigeria but not those of us from the East.”

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