Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the identification of the root causes of the spate of killings in the country to be able to arrive at a solution.
Obasanjo made the call on Wednesday in Jos when he visited Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State to commiserate with him and people of the state over the killings carried out by some suspected herdsmen at the weekend.
He described the spate of killings as a human problem that needed to be addressed with human solutions.
He called on the federal, state and local government to come together to find a lasting solution to it.
Said he: “It is saddening in this day and age that this kind of barbaric thing is happening in our own country.
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“I have suggested and I will still say it again that we need to find out the cause of these mindless killings even among age old neighbours.
“There must be a cause or causes, remote and immediate and we must deal with it.
“And if we must continue to multiply condolences upon condolences, we must look for the remote causes and deal with it.
“I believe this is a human problem and problems have human solutions, this is a human problem.
“I hope and plead that government at the federal level must collaborate with states, local governments and communities to find what are the causes so that we can deal with it.”
