The Kaduna based Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi has debunked media report saying he was invited by the department of security services over his recent comments on bandits.
The cleric made the statement on his verified Facebook page.
Sheikh Gumi a retired Major in the Nigerian Army and a medical doctor said he has good working relationship with security agencies across the nation and he never visited any enclave of bandits without security presence.
He further said
” I am having nonstop calls from all over the globe asking whether I was interrogated or detained by the DSS.
Let it be clear. Nothing of that happened.
I have a good working relationship with all the security outfits, and I didn’t meet any bandit in the forests we visited without the presence of the security men, state officials, representatives of traditional rulers, and Fulani Ardos. And we continue to discuss and have interactions directly or through representatives with all these institutions.
So people should be rest assured that there is no conflict of any sort and we will continue to cooperate to see that peace has prevailed in this dear nation.”
His comments on negotiating with bandits has caused uproar across the nation.
Since his return to Nigeria from Saudi Arabia in the year 2004, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi is associated with making controversial comments which draw media attention.
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Sheikh Gumi retired from the Nigerian Army in 1987 as a major and went to University of Ummul Kura in Mecca where he pursued Islamic Knowledge up to PhD level.
One of such comments was when he asked the presidential candidate of the ANPP in 2007 general elections to withdraw his petition against the presidential candidate of the PDP late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua.
His reason then was that since they are all Muslims and Yar’adua has mounted the saddle of leadership General Muhammad Buhari a fellow muslim should withdraw
