Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on leaders to work
closely together to tackle the incessant violent clashes between
farmers and herdsmen across the country.
Obasanjo made the call in Makurdi on Saturday when he visited
the graves and laid a wreath at the graveyard of the 73 victims of
herdsmen attack.
He said the continued violence and insurgency required
collaboration and collective urgent attention, stressing that
tackling security challenges must begin from the roots to secure a
permanent solution.
According to him, until the issue is addressed from the roots
more and more people will be buried as victims.
”If the issue is tackled right from the roots there will be no
room for assumptions. We must collectively find solutions,” he
said.
Obasanjo said that he laid the wreath to sufficiently express
his sorrow, empathy and sympathy to the families that lost their
loved ones, the governor and people of the state and Nigerians.
He disclosed that he had attended the Zero Hunger meeting which
Gov. Samuel Ortom could not attend because of the incessant attacks
on his subjects by herdsmen.
The former president said that he was shocked to hear that after
the mass burial of 73 persons, 83 more persons were killed.
He regretted that the investment and development cannot take
place in a chaotic atmosphere because investors would be unwilling
to invest in such places.
Obasanjo called for an end to the incessant attacks on farmers
by the herdsmen while appealing the governor not to give up because
“there would surely be light at the end of the tunnel,” he
said.
NAN
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on leaders to work
closely together to tackle the incessant violent clashes between
farmers and herdsmen across the country.
Obasanjo made the call in Makurdi on Saturday when he visited
the graves and laid a wreath at the graveyard of the 73 victims of
herdsmen attack.
He said the continued violence and insurgency required
collaboration and collective urgent attention, stressing that
tackling security challenges must begin from the roots to secure a
permanent solution.
According to him, until the issue is addressed from the roots
more and more people will be buried as victims.
”If the issue is tackled right from the roots there will be no
room for assumptions. We must collectively find solutions,” he
said.
Obasanjo said that he laid the wreath to sufficiently express
his sorrow, empathy and sympathy to the families that lost their
loved ones, the governor and people of the state and Nigerians.
He disclosed that he had attended the Zero Hunger meeting which
Gov. Samuel Ortom could not attend because of the incessant attacks
on his subjects by herdsmen.
The former president said that he was shocked to hear that after
the mass burial of 73 persons, 83 more persons were killed.
He regretted that the investment and development cannot take
place in a chaotic atmosphere because investors would be unwilling
to invest in such places.
Obasanjo called for an end to the incessant attacks on farmers
by the herdsmen while appealing the governor not to give up because
“there would surely be light at the end of the tunnel,” he
said.
NAN
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