An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Monday said bandits are not Boko Haram insurgents but people pushed into crime by poverty. Gumi warned that “we have to be very careful” in handling their case to prevent their being lured by Boko Haram. He said that unlike Boko Haram insurgents with international connections and resources, ”bandits are victims of circumstances.” The clergy, who has for some months been in the eye of the storm for negotiating freedom of persons kidnapped by bandits spoke during a television programme monitored in Lagos by The Nation. Gumi said: “I can say categorically that