Darius Ishaku, Taraba state Governor, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim to US President Donald Trump that Fulani herdsmen do not move around with AK-47 rifles but sticks and machetes as false and misleading, Vanguard reports.
Buhari had claimed during his bilateral meeting with Trump, in Washington DC, last week that herdsmen carry sticks not guns. By inference, he inadvertently absolved the hersdmen from the killings in various parts of the country.
Ishaku said: “It’s absolutely wrong for the President to say herdsmen don’t move around with guns. I mean, who then kills who? It couldn’t have been imaginary that people have been killed with AK-47 in the farmers-herdsmen clashes.”
The governor bemoaned, “The current insecurity has put pressure on our health facilities much more than we anticipated. We already have between 100,000 to 150,000 persons displaced as a result of the clashes.
“Taraba was relatively peaceful before now, and unarguably the safest state in the Northeast. But today, we are having our own share of the herdsmen problem and that has strained our health systems. “Which means, we have to do more in the sector by injecting more funds and employing more doctors and specialists.”
He, therefore, called on Nigerians to stand up to truth and do something to stop the killings in some parts of the country.
