Farmers/Herdsmen: FG Insists Clashes Not Religious - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 29, 2019
TheFederal Government has reiterated its position that the clashes betweenherdsmen and farmers are not instigated by religious sentiments, noting thatthe international community has a very wrong idea about the true position ofthings in Nigeria.
TheMinister of Information and Culture  LaiMohammed, who made the clarification when defending the sum of money dedicatedto projecting government policies and programmes in the 2018, said his ministryhas had the responsibility of correcting the erroneous impression that haddenied the government loans from the international community.
Mohammedwho was before the Olusegun Odebunmi-led Committee on Information and NationalOrientation, Ethics and Values, while justifying the ministry’s hugeexpenditure on foreign media PR lobby consultancy, said: “Until we went there,generalisation was that what was happening in Nigeria was religious.
Hesaid in 2018 the ministry officials made two trips to the UK and two trips tothe US, saying these two trips helped tremendously in actually helping thepeople in diaspora and foreign governments to understand the real dynamics ofthe herdsmen and farmers clashes.