{"id":78042,"date":"2025-11-04T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78042"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:44:45","slug":"gumi-terrorists-are-reasonable-human-beings-should-be-pacified-not-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/gumi-terrorists-are-reasonable-human-beings-should-be-pacified-not-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumi: Terrorists Are \u2018Reasonable Human Beings,\u2019 Should Be Pacified, Not Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said terrorists and bandits terrorising parts of Nigeria are \u201creasonable human beings\u201d who should be pacified, not killed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on VOP TV, Gumi said his peace efforts aimed to \u201cpacify and redirect\u201d insurgents, arguing that force only worsens insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are human beings. They listen and reason, but if you use force against force, you\u2019ll compound the problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that even the U.S. military could not completely eliminate terrorists in Afghanistan or Syria.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, bombing insurgents would cause more harm, as they have already infiltrated communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore Muslims and Christians will be killed if America drops bombs in Nigeria,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Gumi\u2019s remarks followed Donald Trump\u2019s recent threat of military action against terrorists in Nigeria over alleged persecution of Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said terrorists and bandits terrorising parts of Nigeria are \u201creasonable human beings\u201d who should be pacified, not killed. Speaking on VOP TV, Gumi said his peace efforts aimed to \u201cpacify and redirect\u201d insurgents, arguing that force only worsens insecurity. \u201cThey are human beings. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78044,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78042\/revisions\/78044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}