By Chijioke Kingsley
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Worried by the spate of killings in Plateau State, a former governor of the State, Sen. Jonah Jang has called on the federal government to as a matter of urgency establish a State Police as a measure that will halt the incessant bloodbath in Plateau.
Jang said the killers of villagers will not stop until they fulfill their long-time agenda of land grabbing.
He said the assailants are focused on forcefully occupying Plateau communities and only State policing will frustrate the murderers from completing their mission. https://sundiatapost.com/15-plateau-assembly-members-elect-describes-fulani-killings-as-barbaric/
The former governor spoke in a statement signed on Saturday by his media consultant Comrade Clinton Garuba.
“It is therefore pertinent that at this point, there is the need to attend to the call for State Police as part of measures for boosting security, ensuring early response in crises and confronting the challenges of insecurity headlong.
“A situation where State Governors have no powers to immediately deploy personnel to quell attacks and confront marauding terrorists is worrisome.
“The killings are getting out of hand and the State Police option is viable for nipping these massacres in the bud.
“States should be given the power to create, train and equip their Police to enable State governors to deal with peculiar security situations in their various States. https://sundiatapost.com/plateau-killings-sultan-wonders-why-bandits-are-always-step-ahead-of-security-agencies/
“More than ever, the time to heed the call for State Policing is NOW!
“The National Assembly must take this call seriously and rise to the occasion, act in the interest of the Plateau People and consider the issue as a matter of urgent importance”, Jang said.
He however lauded the efforts of the federal and Plateau State governments in responding to the recent attacks, adding that more can be done to stop the seeming non-stop attacks and needless loss of the lives of innocent villagers who are murdered while in their sleep or as the struggle on their farms to eke a living for themselves.
“There is more that can be done, the endless killings are unacceptable, and our people must be allowed to stay in their homes, and continue to cultivate their farmlands without any intimidation or fear of unprovoked attacks which leave them homeless or decapitated.
“We join millions of Plateau people and our well-wishers in sending our heartfelt condolences to the families that have lost loved ones in the recent attacks. We are sore and grieved but consoled that the blood of the innocent will not go unavenged, if not here, in the hereafter.
“We also call on the people to cooperate with the State Government which has shown commitment to ensuring the safety of Plateau citizens.
“The killings have assumed a dimension where inhumanity seems to have overtaken humanity but whatever the intentions and purposes of the terrorists, Plateau will survive, thrive and stand tall as the home of peace and tourism”, the former governor said.
