By AFPMore by this AuthorABUJANigeria's parliament has called for President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it to explain what his government is doing to stop spiralling violence between herders and farmers in central states. Members of the lower chamber of parliament, the House of Representatives, voted Wednesday to summon Buhari over the clashes that have claimed nearly 400 lives since January. "We also resolved to summon (Buhari) in order to answer pertinent questions concerning what the Executive is doing to put a decisive end to the spate of killings in different states of the Federation," he wrote in a tweet. Critics of Buhari say he has done little or nothing to stop the violence because the herders are his kinsmen from the mainly Muslim north of the West African country. Buhari, elected in 2015, has promised to be tough on "insurgency, terrorism, ethnic and religious violence, kidnapping (and) rural banditry".

Source: Daily Nation April 26, 2018 11:03 UTC