I don’t benefit from proceeds of banditry — Gumi

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Controversial Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Friday denied receiving any benefits from the proceeds of banditry.

Gumi described the allegation against him as unfair because he would never contemplate doing such, stressing that his allegiance to the government, security agencies and the nation should not be doubted.

There have been insinuations that Gumi benefits from proceeds of banditry as he is well known to have access to some bandits ravaging the Northern part of the country.

This is as the cleric asked the Federal Government to grant amnesty to bandits just like it did to Niger Delta militants.

According to him, Islam prevents people from partaking in what he termed “dirty money,” so we cannot go against His preaching.

He said: “As an Islamic cleric who doesn’t drink alcohol, doesn’t gamble, and preventing people from getting dirty money from corruption, prostitution, it would be unbecoming of me to take money from the proceed of this crime. Whoever thinks about that is not being fair.

“Secondly, as a medical doctor who is a healer, how can I contemplate benefitting from dirty money where people lost their lives? It doesn’t sound right.

“After sacrificing myself for the nation and serving in the Army, I don’t think anybody should doubt my allegiance to the state, government, security, and the nation.”

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