{"id":85374,"date":"2021-08-30T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=85374"},"modified":"2021-08-30T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:26:18","slug":"plateau-crisis-others-buhari-tells-communities-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/plateau-crisis-others-buhari-tells-communities-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Plateau Crisis, Others: Buhari Tells Communities What To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1709501654850149725\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the people of Jos, the Plateau state capital, and other waring communities to sheath their swords and embrace peace.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nA statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity Mr Garba Shehu, the President said government is moving ahead with force to crush the perpetrators of the recent incidents of unrest in Plateau state.<br \/>\nThe statement reads: \u201cThe presidency wishes to assure all citizens that as a government, the administration is on top of events and is moving ahead with force to crush the perpetrators of the recent incidents of unrest in Plateau State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to achieve success, our communities must unite against against these horrific attacks. Retributice violence is not the answer. \u201cWhile these troubled communities are being reinforced with security personnel, our religious, traditional and other community leaders must not allow the use of use of their spaces for the propagation of violence and incitement to violence.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 faith credentials: but this does not increase understanding, nor offer solutions. If anything, simplistic theorising and finger-pointing makes the situation worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important both for Nigerians and the international community to appreciate that there are a multitude of factors attendant to these troubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere 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 primate purpose of these acts is to extract money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then the herder-farmer clashes. While international voices and some Nigerian politicians who seek personal gain 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 and into contact with farmers for millennia. But, increasingly, due to population pressure, the increased aridity of northern states, and climate change they are forced to travel further south to find grazing lands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, 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 \u2013 as their highly-paid foreign lobbyists claim \u2013 when almost every citizen of those the states they terrorize is uniformly Christian. Yet mistakenly, and because the lobbyists for IPOB have duped them, some misguided foreign media and politicians believe it so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for Nigerians, what we need is to come together. 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