Tukur Mamu, a Yobe State traditional titleholder, has revealed new information regarding bandits and military bombardments in the state.
Mamu, who is believed to be in Sheikh Ahmad Gumi’s camp, said bandits told him that if they hear military aircraft, they retreat into caves.
The ‘Dan Iyan Fika’ in Yobe State said women, children, and cows are affected by air raids and not bandits.
The traditional monarch, speaking to journalists yesterday, criticized security officers’ attitude to combating banditry and terrorism.
The traditional ruler charged the military to provide evidence that bandits’ camps were actually bombarded.
According to Mamu: “There is a particular forest we visited in Niger State. The whole of the settlement had been bombarded.
“This settlement has nothing to do with bandits. In fact, they showed us two wells full of innocent people, dead, inside, casualties of these bombardments.
“That’s exactly what these bandits were telling us. They said, “Whenever we hear the sound of an aircraft, we run to our caves, and then run. If they will succeed in killing anybody, it is the small children, the wives or the cows.”
Gumi is known to have access to bandits in the northern part of the country.
The Islamic scholar had often advocated for a soft landing for bandits. He had severally urged the Federal Government to grant amnesty to bandits.
However, Gumi made a U-turn after an Abuja Federal High Court declared bandits terrorists.
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