Trump Talks Killings With Buhari

Wednesday, 2nd/May/2018

Friday last week President Trump of the United States of America #POTUS played host to Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari during which he touched on key issues including bi-lateral trades and the incessant herdsmen killings in Nigeria.

In a statement, Trump said; “We have had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria, we are going to be working on that problem very, very hard because we cannot allow that to happen” and in response, Buhari promised that his administration was working hard to address the menace, especially in the North West of the country.

Reacting to Trump's statement, the spokesman for CAN President, Pastor Bayo Oladeji, hailed President Donald Trump. He said that “We are happy that President Trump has told President Buhari the right thing to do. We hope and believe President Buhari would do the right thing and sit up as he advised Nigeria's President to address the killings in the country.

In a swift reaction, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that President Donald Trump of the United States of America was given wrong information on recent killings in Nigeria, describing those behind the report as ‘mischief-makers’ as he said that the information that Christians were being killed in Nigeria was untrue as similar incident that happened in the Benue Church, where two priests lost their lives, also happened in the South East and the North, where the herdsmen were alleged to have been behind the killings.

During his interview with the Voice of America (VOA), Hausa Service, in Washington DC, President Buhari said, “Not agreements, just discussions. The first one is the information being given to them that Christians are being killed in Nigeria; but what happened in the Church also happened in the South East and the North and they just say it is herdsmen that are killing them. Those making these allegations against the herdsmen know that herdsmen as we know them only carry sticks, going about with guns is a new thing and those making the allegations knows that conflict between farmers and herders has a long history even before we were born.

Therefore, it is wrong to say the conflict is between Fulani and Tiv or other tribe like in Taraba. What of Zamfara where more people were killed than in Taraba and Benue put together.  People need to understand that it is mischief that makes people to bring in religion or ethnicity.”