Details of the meeting between controversial Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, and security agents have emerged.
The Herald reports that the federal government had invited Gumi to answer questions on security situation in the country, particularly banditry which has bedeviled some northern states for years now.
Taking to his Facebook page on Tuesday, Gumi said: “Only one person is above the law: the innocent.
“Last night I got many frantic calls from well-wishers and journalists about a news item that I was interviewed by security. There is absolutely no cause for alarm.
“Yes, we had a productive interaction on how to curb banditry as we are all trying — each in his own sphere — to tackle the monster bedevilling the nation. There was no animosity but courtesy and full of respect.
“We all need as a nation to unite and work in synergy to achieve an everlasting peace.”
Gumi had recently urged President Bola Tinubu to join him in negotiating with bandits.
Recall that the federal government had on Monday confirmed that Gumi was invited for questioning over his comments on banditry.
Reacting to questions at the Aso Rock briefing, the minister of information, Mohammed Idris said: “Government will not stop at anything to get the kind of information that will solve our problem. The security agencies are up and doing. Gumi and any other individual for that matter is not above the law. If he has suggestions that is for the security agencies to take and if they thing also that appears to be reckless they will also address it.
“Nobody is above the law and I am aware that he has also been a guest of security agencies to answer questions.
“When you make remarks that bother on our National Security, it is incumbent on security agencies to dig further into that and they are doing just that, no one is above the law.”