Ohanaeze calls for Sheikh Gumi’s arrest

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has called for the arrest of Sheikh Ahmad Gumi.

Gumi has been in eyes of the storm for negotiating with bandits in the Northern part of the country.

Gumi had in his interview with BBC Pidgin, compared late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu with the bandits.

Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, President-General of OYC, expressed surprise that Gumi was still walking the streets a free man.

He said in a statement that despite glaring evidence that Gumi was in a deep romance with terrorists, the security agencies had looked the other way while things worsened in the country.

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“There is no doubt that Nigeria is at a crossroads in its journey to nationhood. Never in the history of the country has it witnessed such orge of violence and criminality being perpetrated by terrorists hiding under different nomenclatures.

“However, more worrisome is the fact that the chief mobilizer and the spokesman of the terrorists, Sheikh Gumi has been left to be walking freely despite clear evidence that he was part of Nigeria’s security problems.

“Ranging from his claims that bandits are not terrorists, to his mindless comparison of bandits with the IPOB and now Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, it is clear that Gumi has turned the chief spokesman of terrorists and should be arrested and prosecuted.

“He did not start today as his track record shows that he was part of those that laid the foundation to what we are seeing today; his divisive and inciting messages are not new in the country. It is now time for security agencies to do the needful as this is the only way to end the current mindless killing and kidnapping of Nigerians.”