By Political Animal.
What I am writing could be printed in large portrait or better still on the biggest billboard. HYPOCRISY.
This should be placed on strategic positions in each of the 36 state capitals in Nigeria and FCT. I need sponsors.
How can sheik Gumi be fast gaining reputation as ” Bandits Negotiator” who keeps professing their amnesty and settlement after killing and rendering many homeless.
Whenever there is an attack ,if you have been following the story on social media,he arrives the affected state with a lightening speed and distributes something. I am personally not at ease with such arrangement according to Chinua Achebe.
Assuming the cleric is from the south , knowing Nigeria for what it is,the cleric should have been named a suspect or even an accomplice.
From the way I see it,it looks like a well written script for the sole purpose of looting the country’s treasury and arming miscreants.
Sometimes ago it was trending on social media that a certain volume of money in millions, were handed over to the bandits recently but the Government denied it as usual.
How come that Gumi ,the new chief negotiator knows all the hideouts of the bandits, from Sokoto to Katsina to Zamfara to Bornu down to Niger State.
For me,it simply means that sheik Gumi and his collaborators are on top of their game.
It’s baffling that sheik Gumi can reach the bandits but the Nigerian Army cannot reach them.Why Gumi?.
Why the private peace talks and amnesty for criminals?
Why are they not using the same force they are using against other groups in other parts of the country?
This is an overwhelming preferential treatment and hypocrisy.How can you keep pampering rogues, hooligans and murderers for that matter.
Who made them illiterates?,who stopped them from going to school or to be educated? They hate western education but know enough to collect and count ransom money?
I am really beginning to enjoy the present Government and their game.It is really getting interesting.
It seems that abduction is the latest way of syphoning money without probe?We will continue to go from one problem to another with this type until we wake up one morning to discover that there is nothing like Nigeria.
God forbid.
My expectation is that sheik Gumi should go to the Sambisa forest and negotiate with Boko Haram for the release of sister Leah and the rest abductees.
The precedent the present Government is creating will definitely torment Nigeria tomorrow.
In sane worlds mediators like Gumi should be on the security radder.He should have been tracked with his boys.
All the leaders from other parts of the country are quiet,they seem to be watching helplessly.May be they are presently on exile.
Well,I am not surprised because many of them also eat from the proceeds of the same corruption.
If Nigeria is fixed and start working again, majority won’t be able to fund their luxury and lifestyles again.May be the reason for silence.
Many of them are laundering such money for 2023 elections.May be in the real sense,
we don’t have security issues ,but politics with human lives.
What happened to the earlier narrative of “rich, influential people behind terorrism and violence in the country?
If the man Gumi has become a co-worker conspirator and Boko Haram leader in disguise and just making money in the name of terrorism.
With his well planned and organized bandits, and by so doing enriching them and their masters with Nigeria’s money ,
and nobody is saying anything.What do you call that? Is it not hypocrisy on Billboard?.
If it was discovered that a prominent Pastor from the south knows the exact location of IPOB in the forest and other criminals are like sheik Gumi, you can imagine what the DSS would have done.
Muric director who was recently condemning Bishop Kukah’s message didn’t see anything to condemn again?
They had the audacity to tell bandits that those killing them are non Muslim soldiers.
That the bandits should strategically retalliate.They are doing exactly that with handsome reward.
Those who have been villifying pastors,and calling them all sorts of names are no longer alive on Twitter.They have become very quiet because they are not seeing anything wrong ,if sheik Gumi becomes the chief negotiator between the Federal Government and bandits.
For those who understand Nigeria better ,may be I don’t understand , what should we call what sheik Gumi is doing? .
Should we call it by any other name than Hypocrisy.?Time will tell.
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