Islamic pastor Sheik Gumi has announced that Nigeria is battling an ancestral conflict, calling for acquittal for desperados on the off chance that they should stop their criminal demonstrations.
He explicitly encouraged ranchers, the nation over to permit herders to ensure their woodlands.
As indicated by Gumi, with the continuous ancestral conflict, the national government should stay nonpartisan.
The islamic researcher, while conceding that the crooks are perpetrating a wide range of violations, likewise said that monstrosities have been submitted against them by different clans across Nigeria.
"What you call banditry, when you cross to the opposite side, you find Nigeria is battling an ancestral conflict and government should be the middle person, it should be impartial, it's anything but expected to favor one side," Gumi said on Arise TV on Wednesday morning.
"Be that as it may, the second government takes side, it turns out to be important for the contention. Furthermore, this is the thing that I saw in Zamfara State, in Niger State and different states.
"This is ancestral conflict going on and the public authority taking one side.
"At the point when you said these criminals are perpetrating outrages, indeed, concur they are carrying out wrongdoings, they are killing individuals, they are grabbing, they are assaulting, they are doing a wide range of monstrosities.
"In any case, have you for once go to their own sides to see a wide range of outrages that are likewise dedicated against them?
"Do you realize that a standard herder is lynched in numerous towns in Nigeria? We have seen that in Oyo, we have seen that in Anambra, we have seen that in numerous districts of Nigeria.
"I think there ought to be good natured Nigerians that should remain unbiased in this ancestral conflict."
Demanding his call for acquittal for the crooks, Gumi said they are prepared to give up if government will give methods for work to them.
"The Niger Delta model, I figure we can take model from that. At the point when they were vandalizing pipelines, they were given the pipelines to monitor.
"Presently, the herders are controlling a major lump of land whereby they are keeping ranchers from cultivating. As the Niger Delta is critical to the economy, these herders currently are getting imperative to the Nigerian economy.
"They can be our gatekeepers, they can watch the woodlands. They have characteristics that we can tap from," Gumi said.
He excused the absolution conceded to scoundrels by Katsina State Governor Bello Masari, portraying it "political acquittal" with no bundle.
"At the point when you award a political reprieve, I mean pardon toward the front of the press and the media yet in the genuine sense there was no acquittal.
"Acquittal accompanies a bundle. The bundle is you restore these crooks, you accommodate them social conveniences.