Fiery Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, has said that the security challenges facing the country would soon be a thing of the past.
Sheik Gumi, in a statement issued by his media consultant, Malam Tukur Mamu, made the remarks in, Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, after a visit to the forest in the River Niger area, on Wednesday.
The visit, said to be a medical mission, which the cleric undertook together with a dedicated and fully equipped medical van, medical personnel and drugs worth N20 million also had a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf; Col. Sambo Diri (rtd), Malam Nasiru Ayuba, as well as the representatives of some media organisations, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the police in his entourage.
The group visited the strategic Rugan Zubairu settlement located in the forest in Kogi State where a large number of Fulani herdsmen relocated after the recent violence and attacks in the South East and South West displaced them.
