 An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has advised the federal government to support splinter groups among bandits as a way to end mass abduction of school pupils. Gumi, who spoke to the punch on a telephone on Wednesday, on the abduction of 200 Islamist schoolchildren in Rafi'l-Luku government area of Niger State, said many bandits were ready for a dialogue, adding that the government could use them to fight the ugly ones. He said in quote, ''Government needs to be proactive with them. We have a lot of them that are ready to fight the bad ones, use the bad to fight the ugly and use the good to fight the bad ones when you're done with the ugly.'' Look at Boko Haram, who finished Shekau, was it not the splinter group? End of quote. So you get notified about fresh news updates.