Despite recent incidences of disturbance in Plateau, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration is doing everything in its power to bring the culprits of the unrest to justice.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the president made the assurance in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday in Abuja.

In his remarks, President Buhari stressed that for communities to be successful in the face of these heinous crimes, they must band together.

He also called on religious, traditional, and other community leaders to preach peace and refrain from using their positions to promote violence, as he did in the past.

To safeguard the lives and property of the people of Plateau State, he claims that troublesome villages in the state are being fortified with security personnel.

The statement read: “If anything, simplistic theorizing and finger-pointing make the situation worse.

“It is important both for Nigerians and the international community to appreciate that there is a multitude of factors attendant to these troubles.

“While international voices and some Nigerian politicians who seek selfish personal gains from division declare the herder-farmer clashes a matter of religion, for those involved, it is entirely a matter of access to water and land.

“Then, further afield in the South-East, IPOB is not struggling for freedom when they attack police stations and property, but rather committing acts of terrorism to steal money.

“They are equally not defending Christians, as their highly paid foreign lobbyists claim, but because the lobbyists for IPOB have duped them, some misguided foreign media and politicians believe so.

“As for Nigerians, what we need is to come together. And we must do this firstly by casting asunder those who seek to cause a division for their own financial and political gain”.