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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has ruled out negotiation, forgiveness and compensation for bandits as being advocated by the state based Islamic Scholar, Dr Ahmad Gumi.
The governor disclosed this in an interview with BBC Hausa radio.
El-Rufai said eliminating the bandits is the only solution to banditry in the region .
Lately Dr. Gumi visited communities within Kaduna facing insecurity in the state as well as Zamfara State to meet with bandits.
The governor said that he never believed that a Fulani herdsman who ventured into banditry and receive millions of naira as ransom will repent.
He said he spoke with the Islamic Scholar Dr Gumi who he described as his friend that majority of these bandits don’t believed in religion which is why they killed without mercy.
According to him, anybody that thinks a Fulani herdsman that was used to getting N100,000 in a year after selling a cow, but now gets millions from kidnapping for ransom will stop is only wasting his time.
El-Rufai also said there was division among the north west governors on the way to end banditry in the region.
He said some of the governors see dialogue with the bandits as a solution while others didn’t .
“We lack unity among ourselves (governors) in this region to work together to eliminate these bandits. We in Kaduna and Niger state are still communicating on how to end this problem. The Niger governor use to call me and we discuss.
“Why should they be compensated after killing people, destroyed their houses. Who offended them?. Ahmad Gumi is my friend and this is what we discussed with him.
“I told him that the majority of these Fulani bandits don’t believe in religion. Therefore, I don’t believe in what he (Gumi)is doing that they should be forgiven and compensated” he, said.
The governor further added that any bandit arrested in the state will be killed because the state is in war with bandits.
