Not only does Gumi demand a soft landing for these merchants of gratuitous violence, he mollycoddles them and practically puts the blame for their outlaw activities on just about everyone and anyone except the culprits.
, the Chief Imam of the Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna, had carried on as if he could not be called to order. He had around him this air of arrogance that is rooted in the exaggerated respect, even reverence, that Nigerians generally tend to show to religious leaders.
So, he jumps into issues and makes invidious, bigoted pronouncements that are devoid of concerns for their security implications. He seems to have some insider knowledge of the activities of the bandits in the North and has had cause to spend time with them in their forest hideouts on a couple of occasion.
While the fact that a part, any part, of this country appears to have lost every trapping of law and order- while the fact that people could in broad daylight be abducted or killed in their own homes should worry every one of us, the apparent complicity of the Northern elite in the lawlessness should make the issue less of national concern or embarrassment and more a matter of the regional and communal responsibility of those concerned.
A corrupt feudal system anchored on misguided religious values that allows the immiseration and exclusion of the majority from the gains of civilisation cannot but result in the anarchy that is the hallmark of life in the entire North. The children of the excluded majority are the bandits and insurgents that have retreated into the forests in an open stand-off with their erstwhile tormentors. Yet Gumi wants Nigerians to accept that that is a problem for every one of us.
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