The Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has urged the military authority and the Television Company to apologise and retract their statements against him over the allegation that he said soldiers aid and abet bandits.
Gumi who was invited to the Kaduna office of the DSS after military authorities took exception to comments by the cleric alleging their operatives were conniving with bandits has threatened to seek legal action if the military and the TV company did not apologise to him.
However, Gumi’s spokesman, Malam Tukur Mamu, in an interview with VOA Hausa, which was monitored by Core Reporters dismissed the allegation against the cleric.
He said there was nowhere in the TV interview where Gumi categorically accused the entire military.
According to Mamu, what Gumi said was what people have been saying and ” even the soldiers have been saying that there could be some bad eggs amongst them.”
Meanwhile, the Department of State Security (DSS) had quizzed controversial Islamic cleric, Gumi over an allegation that soldiers aid and abet bandits during an interview with Arise TV.
