{"id":10491,"date":"2018-07-08T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10491"},"modified":"2018-07-08T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T20:27:46","slug":"stop-spreading-false-stories-on-recent-herder-farmer-clashes-pleads-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10491","title":{"rendered":"Stop spreading false stories on recent herder-farmer clashes, pleads presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Garba Shehu<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity.<br \/>\nThe Presidency is appealing to all its citizens as well as members of the international community to refrain from spreading false stories and inflammatory statements concerning the recent herder-farmer clashes.<br \/>\nThe Nigerian Government is working closely with State governments and the Security Services &#8211; as well as international partners &#8211; in order to resolve this ongoing issue.<br \/>\nThe clashes between herders and farmers are historical. The causes of these confrontations are varied and complex.<br \/>\nClimate change, specifically the drying up of the Chad Basin, has led to more pressure on the population in the North of Nigeria, which further compounded the problem.<br \/>\nAs President Buhari indicated lately, there is evidence of involvement of some politicians using criminals to perpetuate the killings.<br \/>\nClimate change is an issue of global significance and the Nigerian Government is determined to continue working closely with its neighbours in order to ensure that a long-term solution can be implemented.<br \/>\nThe Federal Government makes no distinction amongst the population and works tirelessly to protect all Nigerian people.<br \/>\nWe are strongest as a nation when we are united and it is through unity that we will overcome this challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity. The Presidency is appealing to all its citizens as well as members of the international community to refrain from spreading false stories and inflammatory statements concerning the recent herder-farmer clashes. The Nigerian Government is working closely with State governments and the Security Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}