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BREAKING NEWS: PEACEFUL PROTEST: PLATEAU C.A.N.
LEADERS IN POLICE NET
By Udanta Ugante
28 June, 2018
Report reaching us indicates that
members of the State EXCO of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) are
currently being interrogated at the headquarters of the Plateau State Police
Command, Jos over the peaceful protest organized by the Association yesterday
in Jos.
The said protest according to the
organizers was to express their disenchantment over the incessant killings of
innocent natives of Plateau State by suspected Fulani herdsmen with emphasis to
the recent killings which occurred in about 11 villages in Barkin Ladi Local
Government where it was reported that more than 200 people mostly women and
children were massacred.
Miyetti Allah, a Fulani Heders
Association through one of its leaders (Danladi Ciroma) is reported to have claimed
responsibility for the pogrom.
Recall that African Drum reported yesterday how security operatives used live
ammunition on the protesters in Government House, Jos and explained that they
did the shooting but on the air to disperse the protesters who turned violent
and started destroying properties.
Later in the day, the Director of
Press Affairs to Governor Simon Bako Lalong, Emmanuel Nanle issued a statement
in which it stated that government has already identified the sponsors of the
protest and also declared its intention to bring them to account for what it
called “unpatriotic conduct”.
All efforts to speak to the Police Public
Relations Officer, Plateau State Command Mr Terna Mathias Tyopev on the matter
proved abortive as he could only responded to our series of calls with a text
message that he was in Barkin Ladi and promised to call later. However, he
could not respond to our text message on the subject matter up to press time.
Our source said that those at the
police headquarters are Rev. Nenman Isa Gowon, CAN Chairman, Northern Zone,
Mrs. Rhoda Godwill Tahota, CAN Leader, Women Wing Plateau State, Pastor Agnes
Fahmicit Lagang, Vice Chairman CAN Women Wing, Plateau State and many others.
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