CBN Should Pay Bandits N100 Million To Rescue Greenfield Students Before It’s Too Late - Says Sheikh Gumi

Sheik Ahmad Gumi wants the CBN to pay the N100 million ransom being demanded by bandits before Greenfield University students are released. The popular Islamic cleric says the apex bank should provide the money on time before it is too late suggesting the bandits might harm the students. Sheikh Gumi also lamented that terrorist groups are already infiltrating the ranks of the bandits in their various camps across the country.

An Islamic cleric, Sheik Gumi, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 urged the Central Bank of Nigeria to pay the N100 million ransom being demanded by the kidnappers of Greenfield University students in Kaduna state. Gumi who has been at the forefront of championing amnesty for the terrorists said the federal government must not take the threat by the kidnappers lightly.

Gumi was reacting to the comments of a parent of one of the abductees who lamented that the kidnappers were insisting on a ransom of N100 million before their wards are safely released to them.

According to his words; “The money they are asking for is too much; if I give you that money, you cannot run away with it. Nobody can run. So, why not give them the money, they release the boys and then we pursue them and get our money back and do what is necessary; it is simple logic. So, bring the money from the central bank. How can they move that money? We should not be stupid. “These people are getting infiltrated; Boko Haram is getting close and they don’t respect the clergy.”

Sheikh Gumi had earlier told the African Independent Television during an interview that Boko Haram kidnapped students, and not bandits. He said during the interview that: “Bandits don’t live a luxury life, they live in huts, they have nothing, sometimes they drink from the stream.”

Meanwhile, a data analyst and journalist, Rotimi Sankore, has taken to his Twitter page to give reasons why Nigerian governments at all levels are failing to address the mounting insecurity in the country.

According to him, Nigeria is failing to address the problems due to:

Bandits and extremists have plenty of recruits
100 million citizens are in extreme poverty
60 million citizens are unable to read or write
10 million to 13 million children are out of school
Unemployment is at 33%

In a related development, the British Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, has described Nigeria’s security situation as massively complex, stressing that no partnership would resolve the multiplicity of the country’s problems. Duddridge made the comments while responding to questions from journalists attached to Nigeria’s ministry of foreign affairs. The British minister had visited his Nigerian counterpart, Geoffrey Onyeama on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 to discuss matters of interest between both countries when he was accosted by the reporters.