Buhari Blames Gadaffi For Herder-Farmer Killings In NIgeria

President Muhammadu Buhari has restated that former Libyan leader, Muamar Gaddafi, should be blamed largely for insecurity in Nigeria.

According to Buhari, the attacks being witnessed in the north-eastern part of the country are being carried out by Gadaffi’s pawns who infiltrated West African countries after the Libyan leader was killed in 2011.

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The President insisted that contrary to the general belief that attacks in the country are being perpetrated by herdsmen, stooges of the late Libyan leader disguise as herdsmen to carry out their evil acts.

“The Nigerian cattle herder use to carry nothing more than a stick, but these are people with AK-47 and people refuse to reflect on the demise of Gaddafi,” Buhari told Arise TV.

“Gaddafi for 43 years in Libya, at some stage, he decided to recruit people from Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, from Central African Republic and these young chaps are not taught to be bricklayers, electricians, plumbers or any trade but to shoot and kill.

“So, when the opposition in Libya succeeded in killing him, they arrested some and they did what they did to them. The rest escaped with their orphans and we encounter some of them in the North-east and they are all over the place now organising attacks.”

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Speaking further on the recent attacks in Zamafra state, President Buhari said his administration had taken measures to curtail the crisis which included the redeployment of police personnel in the region to ensure effectiveness.

“We virtually changed all the officers for more than three years in Zamfara State and we did a lot of cross posting and so on. There are issues that I don’t go public (on) as the commander in chief because it will affect the morale of men in the front, so, I try to keep quiet. So the situation in the North-west and the North-east are better,” said the President.

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