{"id":8722,"date":"2016-04-18T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2016-04-18T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:46:48","slug":"why-boko-haram-cant-be-defeated-its-a-muslim-problem-sheik-ahmed-gumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8722","title":{"rendered":"Why Boko Haram can’t be defeated, it’s a Muslim problem – Sheik Ahmed Gumi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"boko<\/a>A prominent Nigerian Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, has said that Boko Haram is 100 per cent a Muslim problem, accusing some people in the North of \u201ccooperating with and working to protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gumi said in the current April edition of The Interview<\/em>, that, \u201cBoko Haram as it is now cannot prosper in Ibadan because the locals will expose them. The same in Enugu. The people agitating for Biafra cannot prosper in the North because they will be exposed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe have to understand,\u201d he said, \u201cthat these people are from amongst us and that the society was not doing enough to bring these elements out. I can tell you that Boko Haram is 100 per cent a Muslim problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Gumi, who also described the agitation for Biafra as \u201canalogue,\u201d challenged Muslim leaders to do more to combat Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the controversial bill to regulate preaching in Kaduna State, Mr. Gumi said the bill had gone too far and was an infringement on the constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are trying to fight terrorism and extremism,\u201d he said, \u201cyou don\u2019t clamp on the freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of propagation of thoughts. These liberties are enshrined in the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, had said the bill was an updated version of an existing law required to curtail inflammatory sermons by faith leaders.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mr. Gumi however said the bill could drive extremism underground.<\/div>\n

The cleric also spoke on the military-Shiite clash in Zaria, the ongoing investigation into the $2.1billion arms scandal involving the former National Securuty Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s government
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A prominent Nigerian Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, has said that Boko Haram is 100 per cent a Muslim problem, accusing some people in the North of \u201ccooperating with and working to protect them.\u201d Gumi said in the current April edition of The Interview, that, \u201cBoko Haram as it is now cannot prosper in Ibadan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,80,911,1803],"class_list":["post-8722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-boko-haram","tag-kaduna","tag-nasir-el-rufai","tag-sheik-ahmad-gumi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boko-haram.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2gG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8723,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/8723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}