President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the causes of inter-communal clashes in Nigeria to poverty, injustice and unemployment.
According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President made this disclosure while receiving a delegation from the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue on Monday.
The organisation, which is said to be active in the promotion of peace in Nigeria, visited the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The statement quoted Buhari as saying that to achieve enduring peace in the country, greater effort must be made to eradicate poverty and injustice.
The statement read in part, “The President described ethnic and religious conflicts in parts of the country as outward manifestations of underlying problems of joblessness, injustice and poverty.
“On conflicts between farmers and herdsmen, President Buhari said that a plan to map out grazing areas will soon be presented to the Nigerian Governors Forum as a temporary solution to the frequent conflicts until cattle owners are persuaded to adopt other means of rearing their cattle.”
The President also commended the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue for the relative peace that had returned to Plateau State as well as their on-going activity in Southern Kaduna.
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