Popular controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, says the Nigerian military has been so hard on bandits with the approach it uses to win the war against banditry in the northern part of the country.
He said both the Army and Air Force troops have launched ground and air strikes that have killed the bandits’ families – wives and children – which have angered them, as they see it as a war.
“To them (military) they are fighting a war. Honestly, the military has been very hard on them, the Air Force is killing their families,” they are not terrorists” he adds
