President Muhammadu Buhari says
he does not have to visit troubled states to prove that he is taking action
against killings.
Buhari said this on Monday in
reaction to criticisms of his delay in visiting Rivers, Benue, Zamfara and
other states where violence and killings have been recorded in 2018.
Speaking during a stakeholders’
meeting in Jalingo, Taraba, he urged the ethnic leaders to find ways of
resolving the crisis in the state.
He said: “Governor Darius Ishaku
and I are here temporarily. We will go at the end of our tenure, but you are
permanent with the people at the grass roots.
“So, I charge you to go back and
find ways of resolving the crises in your domains. Go and give your people
justice for peace to reign.
“When I was campaigning, I came
here and promised to provide security, boost the economy and fight corruption.
“Today, even our worst enemy can
attest to the fact that the APC-led federal government has done well in the
area of security. We have decimated Boko Haram, while the fight against
corruption is going on well.
“I can only appeal to the
conscience of the people for them to embrace peace and live with one another in
harmony so that there could be development and not destruction.
“As a President, I have sources
of getting intelligence on happening across the country and so I should not be
expected to always go out to the field to make noise and insult the sensibility
of Nigerians before it would be known that I am taking actions against the
killings.”
President Buhari said he chose to
put Taraba on the top of his visit-list because there were more fatalities in
the state than in the herdsmen killings in Benue and Zamfara.
“There were more killings in
Mambilla than Benue and Zamfara states. I chose to visit Taraba first, but I
will be going to Benue and Zamfara after I return from Ghana to also condole
with the people,” he said.
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