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You ask why do we give them amnesty but they told us specifically that they are ready to drop their arms and they don\u2019t want to be pursued with legal actions after they repented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the country could pardon coup plotters who committed treasonable offences in the era of military administration, the bandits can as well enjoy similar forgiveness even better under democratic rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people in the bush who have taken arms, they are criminals. I wonder who is not a criminal. Since Nigeria forgave coup plotters, forgave those that killed. Even those that instigated civil war; civil war that millions of people died, I see no reason why we can not accept their repentance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince that is the bottle-neck and it is only the federal government that can give them that leverage. And strangely we found out that they are victims too. They were victims of profiling. So many of them were arrested and punished just for looking like herdsmen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) calling for his arrest over a viral video in which he was heard accusing Christian soldiers who instigating crisis in the north, Sheikh Gumi stated that he was misunderstood and the actual message was manipulated.<\/p>\n<p>He added;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cNigerians should embrace each other and live in peace. We should not try to do anything that will cause havoc. I will also call on the press to desist from sensational reporting because this nation is already in flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be very careful in what you report. What you see. Continue reporting responsibly and you should not stir the Christian brethren who are known to be peaceful and law-abiding. We have been together for long and nobody can separate us, we should learn to live together in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has again re-established his calls for amnesty to be granted to bandits. Sheikh Gumi disclosed that\u00a0if coup plotters and those that instigated the civil war could be forgiven, he sees no reason why bandits can&#8217;t also be forgiven. 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