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Gumi To Journalists: Don’t Call Bandits Criminals If You Want Them To Surrender

Thursday 25 February 2021

Gumi To Journalists: Don’t Call Bandits Criminals If You Want Them To Surrender
Sheikh Gumi

Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has stated that Nigerian journalists are “criminals” for describing the activities of bandits as criminality.

He made this comment while speaking when he featured on Arise Television on Thursday.

Gumi expressed that the media is adding to the insecurity problem by the names they use in describing the bandits.

He explained that if the media wants them to surrender, they should not be castigated and referred to as criminals but rather, nice words should be used to describe them.

Also Read: ‘They Are Peaceful People’: Sheikh Gumi Makes Case For Fulani-Herdsmen-Turned-Bandits

“You’re emphasizing on criminality, even the press are criminals too because they are putting oil into fire. These people are listening to you, you should not address them as criminals if you want them to succumb,” he said.

“Youths are ready to put down their weapons, now you are calling them criminals. How do you want them to cooperate? So you have to show them they are Nigerians, that they should not hurt children, be law-abiding. This is the language we want to hear, the press should assist us in getting the boys.

“You see when we talk with them with nice words, they are ready to listen to us, put down their weapons but when the language is about criminality, killing them, then this is what we will keep having.”

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via: Information Nigeria

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