Kidnappers Will Dollarise Ransom Payment If The Naira Is Changed By The CBN” – Sheikh Ahmad Gumi

 

Gumi said if kidnappers start using dollars, it will further make the rotten situation badder than imagined. He thereby suggested that the only way kidnapping can be stopped is if there are “robust policing, social justice for all, and equitable wealth distribution”

*Sheikh Ahmad Gumi with kidnappers

PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 30, 2022

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, the maverick Islamic preacher, took to his Facebook page in the early hours of yesterday to share his thoughts regarding the alteration of naira currencies as reportedly planned by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

According to Ahmad Gumi, “for those talking about starving kidnappers of Naira, they will start using dollars (and other hard currencies) if the naira is changed (by the CBN).”

Gumi said if kidnappers start using dollars, it will further make the rotten situation badder than imagined. He thereby suggested that the only way kidnapping can be stopped is if there are “robust policing, social justice for all, and equitable wealth distribution.”

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi is also of the opinion that changing the naira is a good plan but it is coming at the wrong time.  In his words, “many good ideas are marred by wrong timing and the issue of changing the naira is likely to be another one. This kind of program is not for a government that is in the throes of its demise.”

Buttressing his argument, he said: “we all saw that banning motorcycles or cutting off telephone communication did not help to curb the menace in those states but rather made the populace suffer the more.”

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