President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration is on top of events and is moving ahead with force to crush the perpetrators of the recent incidents of unrest in Plateau.

The president gave the assurance in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday in Abuja.

Buhari, however, maintained that to achieve success, communities must unite against these horrific attacks, saying retributive violence was not the answer.

He challenged religious, traditional and other community leaders on the need to preach peace and not to allow the use of their spaces for the propagation of violence and incitement to violence.

According to him, the troubled communities on the Plateau are being reinforced with security personnel to protect lives and property in the state.

The president said, “Attempts to simplify the reasons into a basic narrative may help raise donor-dollars for international NGOs, fill pages of overseas newspapers and burnish foreign politicians’ faith credentials; but this does not increase understanding, nor offer solutions.

“If anything, simplistic theorising and finger-pointing make the situation worse.

“It is important both for Nigerians and the international community to appreciate that there are a multitude of factors attendant to these troubles.”

According to Buhari, there is the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorism, as well as the spate of kidnappings for ransom, transformed by some misinformed global media into a Muslim-on-Christian threat.

“Yet, in reality there are no religious connotations at all when the primary purpose of these acts is to extract money.

“Then the herder-farmer clashes. While international voices and some Nigerian politicians who seek personal gains from division declare this a matter of religion, for those involved, it is almost entirely a matter of access to water and land.

“Herders have moved their cattle into contact with farmers for millennia.

“But increasingly, due to population pressure, escalating aridity of northern states and climate change, they are forced to travel further south to find grazing lands,” he said.

On the activities of IPOB, the president said: “Then, further afield in the South-East, IPOB are not struggling for freedom when they attack police stations and property, but rather committing acts of terrorism in order to steal money.

“IPOB is not defending Christians, as their highly paid foreign lobbyists claim, when almost every citizen of those states they terrorize is uniformly Christian.

“Yet mistakenly and because the lobbyists for IPOB have duped them, some misguided foreign media and politicians believe so.

“As for Nigerians, what we need is to come together. And we must do this firstly and for the most part by our own hands, by casting asunder those who seek to divide us for their own nefarious financial and political gain.”

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Point of correction, Mr garba shehu vows to crush perpetrators of violence in plateau state. Because to the best of my knowledge, Mr buhari doesn't know that their is an ongoing crisis in plateau state

Ok

This lifeless statement is already stale. Buhari's Junta has killed more Nigerians than all the past administrations combined. Buhari is hell bent on destroying Nigeria

Toothless barking dog..

They will always find a way to shift goal post and take side with the Fulani terrorist.

crushing them means crushing yourself

This man needs a psychiatric evaluation asap

Audio, why not catch the ones the infiltrated the nda and openly persecute them first. This carnage thing is government sponsored blood bath.

Garba Shehu will look back one day at the role he played in this ignoble government and repent!

OgatheTop:
Garba Shehu will look back one day at the role he played in this ignoble government and repent!

He better not!!!!! Let him wallow in his misery.

The citizen should watch their back, Buhari is ready to send soldiers to massacre them in Plateau going by his antecedent with this kind of statement.

He mean to crush the indigenous people who are out to defend themselves

JPhilip:
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration is on top of events and is moving ahead with force to crush the perpetrators of the recent incidents of unrest in Plateau.

The president gave the assurance in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday in Abuja.

Buhari, however, maintained that to achieve success, communities must unite against these horrific attacks, saying retributive violence was not the answer.

He challenged religious, traditional and other community leaders on the need to preach peace and not to allow the use of their spaces for the propagation of violence and incitement to violence.

According to him, the troubled communities on the Plateau are being reinforced with security personnel to protect lives and property in the state.

The president said, “Attempts to simplify the reasons into a basic narrative may help raise donor-dollars for international NGOs, fill pages of overseas newspapers and burnish foreign politicians’ faith credentials; but this does not increase understanding, nor offer solutions.

“If anything, simplistic theorising and finger-pointing make the situation worse.

“It is important both for Nigerians and the international community to appreciate that there are a multitude of factors attendant to these troubles.”

According to Buhari, there is the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorism, as well as the spate of kidnappings for ransom, transformed by some misinformed global media into a Muslim-on-Christian threat.

“Yet, in reality there are no religious connotations at all when the primary purpose of these acts is to extract money.

“Then the herder-farmer clashes. While international voices and some Nigerian politicians who seek personal gains from division declare this a matter of religion, for those involved, it is almost entirely a matter of access to water and land.

“Herders have moved their cattle into contact with farmers for millennia.

“But increasingly, due to population pressure, escalating aridity of northern states and climate change, they are forced to travel further south to find grazing lands,” he said.

On the activities of IPOB, the president said: “Then, further afield in the South-East, IPOB are not struggling for freedom when they attack police stations and property, but rather committing acts of terrorism in order to steal money.

“IPOB is not defending Christians, as their highly paid foreign lobbyists claim, when almost every citizen of those states they terrorize is uniformly Christian.

“Yet mistakenly and because the lobbyists for IPOB have duped them, some misguided foreign media and politicians believe so.

“As for Nigerians, what we need is to come together. And we must do this firstly and for the most part by our own hands, by casting asunder those who seek to divide us for their own nefarious financial and political gain.”

Read more...[b]https://www.herald.ng/buhari-vows-to-crush-perpetrators-of-unrest-in-plateau

May the fingers of the writer of these falsehood shrivel. May his/her hand swell x3 it's original size and may the pain be unbearable until he/she publicly withdraws the lies (in bold) against IPOB. IPOB have always called for a UN organized referendum. There shall never be peace for the wicked.
May every plan of the terrorist government against the peaceful people of Plateau and other states defending their ancestral lands from fulani invaders always fail. May all the elements work against them. May confusion engulf their camp and may they turn their weapons against themselves. Amen.

They shall be crushed no matter what their propagandists and international backers say. Nigeria will emerge victorious.

I get angry anytime I see this farmers-herders clash tag. It is a pure distortion of facts. Herders have always been the encroachers and aggressors and not farmers at all. The ideal tag should be "herders' inhumanity to farmers".

You are the centre of Gravity of every unrest in Nigeria today

How ?

FarahAideed:
You are the centre of Gravity of every unrest in Nigeria today

Initial gragra as usual.

Failed country... nepotisic president of bunch of educated illiterates

Lifeless statement from a lifeless presidency