Omokri Calls for Sheikh Gumi’s arrest for exonerating herdsmen

A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has called for the arrest of Kaduna based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi over his comments excusing bandits and herdsmen.

Omokri, who made the call via his Twitter handle on Thursday, was reacting to comments by Gumi during an AriseTV interview on Wednesday.

In the interview with Arise TV, the Islamic cleric said: “The herdsmen are kidnapping children not to kill them but to get money; so how can you compare somebody who is killing our gallant men directly to somebody who is kidnapping children to make money and not to kill them. Look, we need some fairness in what we are doing.”

Reacting on Thursday, Omokri charged the security agencies to arrest the cleric over the, which he said was capable of setting ‘Nigeria on fire’.

In a tweet, Omokri wrote: “What is wrong with this man? Herdsmen don’t just abduct schoolchildren. Even if that is true (it is not), what is ‘only’ about that? Herdsmen have killed thousands of citizens in every Nigerian state. Gumi may set Nigeria on fire. How can he say this and walk free?”