Only Muslim Soldiers Can End Boko Haram Menace In The North-Sheikh Gumi

  Only Muslim Soldiers Can End Boko Haram Menace In The North-Sheikh Gumi

Respected Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has propounded a solution to the Boko Haram insurgency. He believes that current efforts against the sect would be more successful if handled by a Muslim soldier. He propounded this theory on his facebook page and as usual brings to you unedited below. You may also read it directly from his facebook page by [LINK=https://www.facebook.com/AhmadAbubakarMahmudGumi?ref=ts&fref=ts]clicking here[/LINK]- ISSUE OF THE DAY

Every individual in this nation is concerned about the future. Nigeria is catalytically deteriorating. Today the national discourse is on corruption and amnesty for terrorism.
We have missed the crux of the matter. Corruption is incurable, it is only suppressed. That is by genuine Ethics/faith illumination campaigns like the Ethical revolution, W.A.I, Re-brand Nigeria etc. and an effective system of accountability (i.e. check and balance) or what can be summed up as good governance. As for the amnesty to Boko Haram it is hypocritical. Boko Haram as an ideology respects no law. Not even the Quran or Hadith or Scholarly fatwa. They have their own interpretation, anything short of that is part of the enemy that should be killed. So on what basis should there be dialogue or amnesty. It is a creed that must be crushed; it is a creed the prophet – alaihis Salam- wished he is alive to exterminate.
... The question today, is who can do that? I say definitely not the present dispensation. Because it lacks the moral high ground to defeat them. Already, a greater amount of innocent people were killed, maimed, tortured and incarcerated by the JTF in the name of fighting Boko Haram than the damage cause by them or those that camouflage behind them. A whole region is made to suffer economically, socially and politically because of this blind war on terror. The present dispensation has everything to gain is refusing the 'amnesty' call for political reasons, that is why it is recalcitrant. Otherwise, if the need to crush BH is genuine, it would have been achieved since.
Let a selected Muslim High ranking officer cadre of the armed forces take charge of this whole ‘operation’ from investigations to incursions. It needs a careful excision and only the person that feels the pains of society has the capacity to carry it out. Like removing a tumor from the brain, you don't give that to an orthopedic surgeon no matter how good to do that. It is an operation of precision not brute force. This choice of tackling a peculiar problem is the sign of good governance. Special missions have special requirements if success is the objective.
BH are armed individuals hiding is a civilian population. They do not control any high fire power to be engaged in a war. Therefore there is absolutely no need -what so ever- to deploy and ultimately exhaust the military in road blocks all over the spheres of their activities. What are needed are very good intelligence, special strike squads and the genuine cooperation of the civilian population which can never be achieved through intimidation.
So when the issue is tackled with the impulses of vengeance and retaliation as the case is now, the whole saga is gradually turning into another thing all together. This is what makes the future bleak and frightening.