By Chijioke Kingsley
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – The Plateau State Governor, Caleb Muftwang has assured the people of the State that President Bola Tinubu will bring to an end the incessant killings that has engulfed the State for over two decades.
The Governor who also assured the people that he will not play politics with the security of citizens he took an oath to protect, also promised that it will not be business as usual where terrorists who kill people in cold blood will go unpunished.
Mutfwang was speaking at the Government House in Jos on Monday when the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Plateau State chapter, led some league of Christians on “Peace Walk”, to the Governor, to register their agony on the Christmas Eve massacre in Bokkos Local Government Area of the State, that left over 200 persons dead. https://sundiatapost.com/christmas-eve-killings-ex-governor-jang-calls-for-state-police/
Joining the mammoth crowd to weep for the souls of those murdered in cold blood, the Governor also prayed that all the terrorists involved in the gruesome murder will be apprehended.
“Tinubu has assured me he will bring the crisis to an end.
“By the Grace of God we will move from the book of Lamentation to the books of Acts.
“We will not allow this to continue. I didn’t come as a politician but have come that Plateau will rise again.
“If there is one thing I will achieve as a Governor, is to bring this incessant killings to an end”, Mutfwang said.
Speaking earlier, the President of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Rev. Stephen Panya, who also doubles as the CAN vice President, said without justice there cannot be peace. https://sundiatapost.com/plateau-massacre-how-9-year-old-boy-led-heavily-armed-attackers-to-villagers-hideout/
Panya said promoting peaceful co-existence must be complimented with the provision of adequate security which will be predicated on justice, fairness and equity.
According to him: “Security personnel should be deployed across all the flashpoints in Plateau State to prevent a repeat of the Christmas massacres.
“The military must be well trained, equipped, motivated and allowed to carry out its job professionally without fear or favour.
“Since the military has admitted it cannot be everywhere at the same time, and given its involvement in many theatres of operation across the country, communities should be allowed to organise their self-defence
mechanisms to defend their communities from terrorist attacks while waiting for military intervention.
“Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) needs to be restructured and given a fresh mandate to ensure adequate protection of all communities.
“The existence of the military outfit cannot be justified if massive attacks and killings continue unabated on the Plateau.
“The government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must do everything possible to prevent Nigeria from drifting into anarchy. People are no longer willing to stand aloof and allow terrorists to continue to slaughter them like animals”, he said.
Narrating the horrible attack, the CAN vice president gave a pathetic example of how one Veronica Malan was killed.
“Veronica Malan, a nursing mother was shot through her stomach and the bullet pierced her abdomen and passed through the stomach and back of her 9-month-old baby boy, Godwin.
“To ensure that they were both dead, they were slaughtered along with 23 others, mostly women in their hideout in Chirang, Mangur District.
“A three-year-old baby girl was shot point blank and still lies critically ill at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH). At the Mbong community, the charred bodies of a woman and her Seven children and relatives set ablaze by the terrorists lie in the ruins of their burnt bedroom”, Panya lamented.
