The governor of Taraba
State, Darius Ishaku, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim
that Fulani herdsmen don’t move around with AK-47 rifles but sticks and
machetes as false and misleading.
DAILY
POST recalls that Buhari had made this claim during his bilateral
meeting with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in
Washington DC, last week.
However, speaking to journalists in
Abuja during the weekend, the governor said that it couldn’t have been
imaginary that farmers were killed with AK-47 rifles in their clashes
with herdsmen in Taraba and Benue states.
“It’s absolutely
wrong for the President to say herdsmen don’t move around with guns. I
mean, who then kills who? It couldn’t have been imaginary that people
have been killed with AK-47 in the farmers-herdsmen clashes.
“We simply have to stand up to the truth and do something to stop the killings,” he said.