President Buhari with officials of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria/Twitter
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment on herdsmen during the Democracy Day speech as “evasive.”
According to a statement by the clergy, it said the speech was vague as Buhari should have revealed to Nigerians the arrest made over killings by the suspected herders.
The Bishops said: “It is unacceptable to the church that President Muhammadu Buhari simply made a vague reference to the killer herdsmen in his Democracy Day speech.
“We find his promise to bring the killer herdsmen to full wrath of the law as evasive and the Catholic Church is not comfortable with that. We had hoped to hear him tell the nation that the murderous herdsmen have been arrested and being made ready for prosecution.”