President Muhammadu Buhari says he is deeply troubled by persistent communal killings in Kaduna state, which has now been politicised.
The president made his feelings known when he reacted to the endless carnage in Kaduna state in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja yesterday,
President Buhari regretted that everything is politicised in Nigeria, including the efforts to bring offenders to justice, because their people will rise up in arms to resist their arrests and prosecution.
He described hate, bigotry and prejudice as deadly poisons that have infected the human psyche on such scale that people now don’t have any moral inhibitions about taking life.
The president, therefore, urged the actors in the crisis to come to terms with the fact that mutual violence has no winners, but losers on both sides of the conflict.
According to the president, violence cannot be the solution to these persistent conflicts as long as people resort to deliberate provocations, revenge and counter revenge.
He, therefore, maintained that, while the government remains committed to protecting its citizens, the communities involved must also put their shoulder to the wheel in order to find a lasting solution.
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