Poverty, Unemployment And Injustice Responsible For Conflicts In Nigeria – Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Abuja that poverty, injustice

and the lack of job opportunities were mainly responsible for

inter-communal and intra-communal conflicts in Nigeria.

Speaking while receiving  a delegation from the Centre for Humanitarian

Dialogue, an organization active in the promotion of peace in Nigeria,

President Buhari said that to achieve enduring peace in the country,

greater effort must be made to eradicate  poverty and injustice.

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 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.
He agreed with the Centre that dialogue was always preferable  to the use

of law and order mechanisms  and force in the resolution of conflicts.

The Executive Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, David

Harland told President Buhari  that following their success in

facilitating the  settlement of the inter-ethnic and inter-religious

conflicts in Plateau State, the group had moved to Kaduna State.

He expressed the hope that the techniques used in bringing peace to

Plateau State can soon be  deployed to deal with the Boko Haram insurgency

and other conflicts in Nigeria.
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