Going by his recent postulations, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi believes that bandits are not criminals, and so they should not be addressed in such terms. In truth, the cleric is concerned with what the bandits can perpetrate in their wrath, and the public must wonder if there is after all no ulterior motive behind his bandit empathy. But not all the flak he drew for suggesting that bandits should be granted amnesty would deter him from repeatedly defending them.
Continuing his trend of bandit advocacy, the sheikh aired his belief during the televised broadcast that the media was the true criminal as it had only hounded bandits and called them criminals. He wondered how the bandits, youths in their prime, were expected to cooperate despite being ready to hand down their weapons. What the situation wanted, said the cleric, is that bandits be shown that they are Nigerians.
How can he persist in his views even after another 317 female students were kidnapped on Thursday night in Zamfara? He must now summon the willpower to entomb the same warped sense of justice, which has exposed Governor Bala Mohammed, Governor Bello Matawalle and other prominent Nigerians, including himself, to ridicule.