 Your Excellency, the Governor of the Boeing State, Governor David Umayyip, Your Excellency, the Governor, the Deputy Governor of the Boeing State, Eric Kelechi Igway, the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alaji Lai Muhammad, the Honourable Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uche Oga. The Speaker of the Boeing State House of Assembly, the right Honourable of One-Hire in Weifu. The Community Leaders of Hefe Omklan, Pastor Emmanuel Olo, the Community Leader of the Ezzar clan, Barista Dr. Utobo Joseph, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. First, let me say that I'm here, not on my own, I'm here on the special instructions and directives of Mr. President, President Muhammad Buhari, who was extremely concerned about what happened here in these two communities, between the Ezzar and Hefe Omklan communities. The reason why this was a special concern is because, as you know, there have been several, these incidents have been repeated, just as Governor said, time and time again. But this particular one was worse than any other. Hundreds of people lost their lives, women and children lost their lives. Houses destroyed, even places of business, factories, places of business were destroyed. In a community where people have lived together for years, intermarried, all of a sudden, children are being killed, babies, women are being killed. Mr. President was particularly concerned about this and, of course, we spoke to the Governor and he thought it would be good for me to come here, on this behalf, to speak to the communities and especially the leadership of the communities and to say first of all that for the families of those who have lost their lives, we accept the deep sympathies of the federal government of Nigeria, the condolences of federal government for the loss of property, loss of lives and all that, where this is an outrageous, outrageous incident, so many people killed, so many people died and there is no reason at all why this sort of thing should happen in this community, a community, a peaceful, a liberally peaceful community. And I've noted the number of places where incidents took place. The villages all around the place, Oporo, I've told you, Oporo Village, Niki, Ogo, Ogo is a so many different places where this incident occurred. I want to say first to the leadership that the responsibility of leaders, community leaders is to ensure that you keep the peace so that the people who you lead do not die needless deaths. That's the responsibility of leadership. The first responsibility of leadership is to make sure that the people that are being led, the people that we lead are followers and the people of our communities do not die needless deaths, unwarranted deaths. That's our first responsibility. It's possible for anybody to say oh, let the government do something. Let the government do something. But I want to say that the community leadership must be the first place where responsibility lies. We must do something about peace in our communities. We must do something. Whatever comes from there, the security provided by federal government, state government and all that is second. We must ensure that we make peace. So for me, I think the very first step is that there must be amongst the community leaders themselves. I'm very happy at the tone of the presentations that I've heard from the leadership of both communities because it appears that it's from the tone of what they have said that they are ready to come together to make peace. It is only on that basis that federal government can intervene. Otherwise, it will be a waste of time and resources. If today, the federal government says okay, we are going to give an extra amount of money. The next thing, another clash, everything is destroyed. When will it end? So I think the first responsibility is for the community leaders themselves to be able to pledge to make peace in this community. If that is done, then it's easy for everybody to intervene. When this crisis started, the army, the presidents ensured that the army destroyed more units here. Of course, we've heard about what the army commander is doing. The police as well. Yes, we need more men, clearly. But the first line of peace is the community itself and the leadership of the community. As I said to His Excellency the Governor who, as you've heard from everybody has done an excellent job of trying to ensure that peace is brought and returned to this place. Yes, we will make sure that we commit to bringing more military and more police more law enforcement and whatever we can do about rebuilding the communities, rebuilding houses that have been destroyed, providing circle to those who need it in the form of reliefs from NEMA and all that. The federal government will do it very well. But we must make sure as community leaders that we take responsibility. I also want to join the Governor saying that there is no politics that justifies the death of anybody. Politicians who try and create a crisis and milk the death of others. That is completely irresponsible. That's a responsibility. There's no excuse for it. It is the duty of leaders, political leaders to moderate their statements and to make sure that their statements don't worsen matters and create a crisis. So I will join the Governor and say that everybody must be restrained in their comments and be careful with what we say so that we don't escalate this crisis and make things worse. I would like to commend everybody, all of you who are there and the leadership of community leaders and the work you have done so far in returning peace to this place. There is so much that can be done. As you can see, the Ring Road is being built. There's a lot of opportunities, economic opportunities that have come to this community. But not when factories are being destroyed and companies of people are being destroyed. So I really wish to urge you all especially on the day of Easter that we should all find ways of bringing about peace so that growth and development of these communities can continue. I pray that the Almighty God will help every one of us and God will help you and help our communities not only to restore peace but there will be progress in these communities and that all of what has been lost there's nothing we can do about lives that have been lost but at least we can look for ways of replacing properties and all of them have been lost. Thank you all very much.