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| Dr Madaki, Chairman PIDAN |
PLATEAU KILLINGS: PIDAN, OTHERS DRAG FG
BEFORE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
By Lovins Yakubu
2nd July, 2018
Irked
by the incessant killings of mostly women and children in Plateau State by suspected
Fulani herdsmen, key stakeholders in the State have dragged the Federal
Government to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) sitting in Hague.
Just
last week, more than 200 persons were reported massacred by suspected Fulani
herdsmen in Barkin Ladi Government areas of Plateau state, a situation that drew
outrage within and outside Nigeria. Consequent upon the above, the umbrella
body of all ethnic nationalities in the State, Plateau Initiative for
Development and Advancement of the Natives (PIDAN) said it has sent a petition
to the ICJ over the killings of the natives.
The
chairman of PIDAN, Dr. Madaki J. Aboi said that another organisation known as
North Central Youths Assembly and others have already sent petitions to the ICJ
and the United Nations on the gruesome killings in Plateau State.
Madaki
said that they wanted the ICJ to intervene in the situation because of the
excessive killings in the State and continuous injustice against the people
stressing that an injustice to one tribe in Plateau State is an injustice to
all others. According to him, “we are calling on the ICJ to ensure that justice
is done on the Plateau, the killings are too much.”
The
chairman of PIDAN also gave an insight on the number of people displaced as a
result of the recent pogrom saying that about 13,000 in Riyom and Barkin Ladi
were displaced while 11,000 were also displaced in other Local Governments emphasizing
that the displaced persons were in 10 different IDP camps across the State.
Similarly,
the Berom Educational and Cultural organisation (BECO) announced its intention
to forward a separate petition detailing the killings in the state. This was
disclosed to Sunday tribune by the
Secretary-General of BECO, Davou Choji who said that they were enough and clear
grounds for the petition.
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