What Buhari told Trump in Washington
What Buhari told Trump in Washington 2018/04/30 20:20:04 President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Washington DC during the bilateral talk with U.S. President Donald Trump said that herdsmen crisis in Nigeria is an age-long challenge. Buhari said herdmen do not carry guns but only wield sticks and occasionally machetes. He reiterated that death of Gaddafi aggravated herdsmen crisis in Nigeria. “The problem of herders in Nigeria is a very long historical thing. The Nigerian herders don’t carry anything more than a stick and occasionally a matchet to cut down foliage and give it to their animals, these ones are carrying AK-47. “So, people should not underrate what happened in Libya. 43 years of Ghaddaffi, people were recruited from Sahel and trained to shoot and kill. With the demise of Ghaddaffi they moved to other countries and region and carried the experience with them,” he said. Buhari also hailed the United States government for assisting in Nigeria’s fight against i...