By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
The former senator representing Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has said that the bandits terrorising poor communities in the north are not fighting for any cause nor have they any grievance.
Sani, in a tacit reply to the Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, argued that the bandits were simply rabbid criminals.
Gumi had claimed that the bandits had resorted to crime because of military assault on their communities.
But Sani, via his Twitter handle, wondered how the killing of innocent Nigerians would address whatever grievance, if any, that the bandits had.
His words: “Bandits have no grievance other than rabid crave for criminality, and violence; even if they have grievances, killing and kidnapping innocent poor people is not the path to addressing it. Let this be clear.”
Sani, in another warning to Gumi, said: “Those who believe in or support dialoguing with the armed bandits for peace should avoid the thin line of defending or justifying their murderous acts and systemic atrocities. Be not possessed or hypnotized by the blood on their hands.”