Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has established a school for herdsmen in one of the grazing reserves in Kaduna state.
The cleric, who has been clamoring amnesty to be given to bandits, said the provision of infrastructures like schools to herdsmen in their remote locations could help in curbing their violent ideologies.
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Adding that the bandits were ready to lay down arms if they were provided with some amenities, like schools.
Gumi disclosed this while answering questions from journalists during an inspection tour to the Sheikh Uthman Bin Fodio Centre at Kagarko Grazing Reserve in Kohoto village on Monday.
According to him: “What motivated me to start this project was to solve the insecurity problem we have from the root because every crime has its perpetrators and every perpetrators are drawn from a pool.
“So we want to go there and dry the pool and we found out that education is the best cure.
“If they are educated, they will not be doing what they are doing.
“So we say we must take education to the grassroots and we embarked on the project to also be an example for others.
“Local government, state and federal and rich individuals even cooperative societies must come together and make sure that we are directed across the forest to know what we can do for the nomads.
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“It doesn’t cost much very little and it will help to educate them and we will live peacefully with them.”
