Power to Stop Boko Haram Lies in the North and in the Hands of Muslims -Gen Gumi

Brigadier-General Abdulqadir
Abubakar Gumi (retd), Former
director of legal services of the
Nigerian Army believes the North and
Muslims have a key role to play in the
eradication of boko haram terrorists.
According to LEADERSHIP, Gumi made
the disclosure while via a piece titled,
'How To Break Boko Haram II'. The
retired general said he said he is
informed by the fact that ''Muslims
were hitherto designated as the main
complainants/victims of the
insurgency and, by extension, the
entire Northern Nigeria which formed
the battleground.''
''It is erroneous for the Northern
establishments to rely fully on the
government or the National Assembly
for all initiatives needed to prosecute
the BH (Boko Haram) insurgency.
They (North) should bear in mind that
no federal body is structured to either
project the North, faith, regional-
based entity or targeted situations.
The North, being directly devastated
by the insurgency as ground zero,
needs to design its peculiar defence
mechanisms common or suitable to its
heritage.
''This would fill in survival gaps or at
the least improve its disposition as to
compel the constituted federal
structure to be alive to its
responsibilities whenever its social
fabrics are threatened. The attitude to
wait for an election year before action
would amount to accepting the kind of
casualties and losses realized within
the period for the democracy we have
chosen for ourselves''.
''Apathy and total reliance on
government structures for all
obligations, checks and balances turn
silly a critique as to deserve no ears of
a serious responder. The law itself,
after all, does not rise up to the
indolent.
''It behoves on ‘the Cloaked one,’ the
waiting to be fed, the victim, every
Muslim, group of Muslims and
Christians of the North who insist that
the situation must change, to come out
and isolate himself/themselves from
the violent ideology that sets itself on
war path with fellow countrymen.''
Gumi, who is the son of the revered
late Grand Khadi of Northern Nigeria,
Sheik Abubakar Gumi, and brother of
Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh
Mahmud Gumi,