Reno Omokri knocks Gumi, says he’s promoting banditry

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday berated Kaduna based Islamic scholar, Ahmad Gumi, saying he is promoting banditry contrary to what many believe.

Omokri, who spoke during an online interview with The Punch, also called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to summon Gumi for questioning, insisting the cleric was sowing the seed of discord in the country and inciting Muslims against Christians by telling bandits that Muslim soldiers were the ones neutralising them.

He said: “Sheikh Gumi should be answering questions with the DSS.

“Sheikh Gumi should be summoned by the DSS to back up his claim that Christian soldiers are the ones killing Muslims.”

It would be recalled that the Islamic scholar have been visiting bandits in deep forests in Zamfara and Niger states in what he called peace missions. He had also advocated blanket amnesty for the bandits like was done for the militants in the Niger Delta region.

The cleric also claimed that the bandits had only killed a “few” people accidentally, adding that they killed for “revenge”.

Omokri, while speaking at the online interview, said it was unthinkable that Sheikh Gumi was still allowed to move freely by the Buhari administration which had summoned a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, over his comments on notorious terror group, Boko Haram.