Kaduna-based Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has alleged that American intelligence agencies are behind the activities of bandits and Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria.
Gumi made the claim in a Facebook post on Saturday while reacting to comments by Mike Arnold, who had spoken about alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
Arnold had shared photos of himself with several prominent Nigerians, including former Cross River State Governor Donald Duke and Nigeria’s Information Minister Mohammed Idris.“These are a few of the people I’ve met and places I’ve been to in Nigeria over the years,” Arnold wrote while posting the pictures.
Reacting, Gumi accused Arnold of promoting what he described as a false narrative about Christian killings in Nigeria, while ignoring insecurity affecting parts of northern Nigeria.
“After all the barking about ‘fake Christian genocide’, it is shameful to realise that this man has been almost everywhere where Christians are prosperous, yet he has not visited Zamfara, Katsina and other northern states suffering from the activities of bandits and Boko Haram allegedly sponsored by the same American intelligence,” Gumi wrote. “One of the things Islam abhors is lies and liars,” he added.