President Buhari, reacting to the recent killings in Plateau stated that it is unfair for Nigerians to accuse him of not cautioning gun-wielding herdsmen that have killed scores in the country, because he looks like them.
The president said this during his town hall meeting with Plateau state elders yesterday June 26th.
A statement by Garba Shehu quoted President Buhari as saying;
‘‘What happened here in Jos is very bad. The question of leadership, from your household to whatever you are, is justice. The bottom line is justice. That is why wherever I go, I will always appeal to the leadership of the communities, the law enforcement agencies to always have control of their constituencies. Whatever is being given to the media, we have to be very responsible about it. Take for instance the situation in Benue. The Benue subsistence farmer knows that the Nigerian cattle herder that he knows doesn’t carry nothing more than a stick, occasionally sometimes something to cut grass to feed his cattle. But the present herder, I am told, carries AK47 and people are even blaming me for not talking to them because maybe (they say) I look like one of them. There is some injustice in these aspersions.”
