{"id":31688,"date":"2021-03-01T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31688"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:58:24","slug":"sheikh-gumi-abducting-school-students-is-lesser-evil-than-attacking-and-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31688","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Gumi: Abducting School Students Is Lesser Evil Than Attacking and Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-appointed negotiator between bandits and willing State governments and Islamic Scholar, Ahmad Gumi, stirred anger, again, on Monday when he declared that the abduction of school students by bandits\u00a0 is a lesser evil than storming communities and taking lives.<br \/><br \/>His comments, though agreeable to some sparked outrage because it tended to endorse the abduction of over 300 female students of a girls secondary in Zamfara State.<br \/><br \/>In social media comments, many fault the timing of his comments.<br \/><br \/>On a BBC Pidgin interview, the cleric said, \u201cKidnapping children from school is a lesser evil because in the end, you can negotiate and now bandits are very careful about human lives.<br \/><br \/>\u201cBefore, the mission of bandits was to go into a town, ransack it and kill people. By this, I can say our preaching is working and hopefully, we are coming to an end of banditry in Zamfara and other states.<br \/><br \/>\u201cBandits are more careful about lives now and just want to do sensational attacks which would bring attention to themselves.\u201d<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-appointed negotiator between bandits and willing State governments and Islamic Scholar, Ahmad Gumi, stirred anger, again, on Monday when he declared that the abduction of school students by bandits\u00a0 is a lesser evil than storming communities and taking lives. His comments, though agreeable to some sparked outrage because it tended to endorse the abduction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[597,1628,314],"class_list":["post-31688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-abduction","tag-gumi","tag-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}