Activist politician Omoyele Sowore has supported the position earlier expressed by Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi that the Nigerian government knows the identities and locations of terrorists operating in the country.
Sowore also claimed that the government has the capacity to eliminate terrorists and other criminals within a short time if it is truly willing to do so.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Sowore argued that Gumi’s comments should not be dismissed, describing the cleric as someone who understands the situation.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Sowore said: “Sheikh Gumi is not a foolish man as people think, he is actually very smart. He might be smart for different reasons and be religious in his ways and he’s not telling you anything new.
“All these terrorists are in bed with people in government, whenever there is mass kidnapping, why do you think the government is able to reach out to the kidnappers? It’s because they have their phone numbers
“If they call one side, the one in Niger, those ones will give them the telephone number of the one in Katsina, who will say it’s not us, its our friends, Gumi is not lying.
“No major terrorists or criminal that is not known to Nigerian security agencies but you find kidnappers doing MCs at the naming ceremony of Police Commissioners in Nigeria, they know themselves. If they want to wipe out all the terrorists today, they know where to get them.”
