Violent attacks: About 800 herdsmen have been arrested – Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says about 800 suspected violent herdsmen have been arrested across the country by security agencies.
According to a statement issued by his spokesperson Mr. Laolu Akande on Saturday, Prof. Osinbajo made this disclosure in Houston, Texas in the US on Friday at a Townhall event where he interacted with US-based Nigerians.
The Vice President responded to about thirty questions at a well attended townhall event moderated by Mr. Rudolf Okonkwo of Sahara Reporters and Prof. Nimi Wariboko of Boston University.
On the issue of the herdsmen, Osinbajo said, “The President has given firm instructions to the security agencies to arrest not only herdsmen who are attacking communities anywhere in the country but anyone of them or anyone at all in possession of firearms.
“There are about 800 of suspected violent herdsmen in the country that are currently in custody.”
Prof. Osinbajo also used the event to remind the audience that the matter was a perennial one which did not crop up suddenly on the assumption of President Buhari to office.
Osinbajo also called for the establishment of State Police as it would aid communication between the police and residents within communities.
When asked via the internet on when former President Goodluck Jonathan would be arrested, Osinbajo pointed out that the Buhari administration is not in the business of arresting just anyone anyhow. He said all the Buhari administration does is to empower the security agencies and the anti-corruption agencies to do their jobs, without the administration trying to teleguide them.
He also added that the fight against corruption in the country is not fought on ethnic, hasty or premediated grounds.
According to him, “Corruption is not an ethnic thing, there is an equal representation in the stealing as no one operates with his/her ethnic group alone, the culprits are in every case seen so far, united by greed to steal and not by ethnic or religious interest.”
He frowned at a situation where for instance as much as $15 billion has disappeared from the national coffers into private pockets, pointing out that no responsible government would wave that aside so as not to offend people.

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