Friday, 25th June 2021: The State Security Service (SSS) self-styled Department of State Services (DSS) Friday afternoon invited a popular Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi to appear before it.

This is according to the Voice of America Hausa service monitored in Ibadan, which announced the invitation Friday afternoon.

Recall that Gumi, the prominent Islamic scholar and self-acclaimed negotiator for bandits on Wednesday justified banditry going on in parts of the North, saying the activities of the violent herdsmen are better than that of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), whom he accused of killing security agencies.

The cleric while demanding amnesty for the bandits implicated security agencies as colluding with the criminals to perpetuate the heinous acts, a claim rejected by both the Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police Force who denied that their personnel were part of such misconduct