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| Nde Isaac Wadak |
Massacre in Kombol : Nde Isaac Wadak condoles community, urges
Gov. Lalong to strengthen Operation Rainbow.
By LovinsYakubu
January 10, 2020.
A PDP chieftain and Plateau Central
Senatorial District aspirant in the 2019 party primary elections,
NDE Isaac Wadak has condemned in strongest term the attack and killing of 13
innocent people in Kulben, Kumbol District in Mangu Local Government Area of
Plateau state North Central Nigeria on Thursday morning by suspected Fulani
herdsmen. Wadak further consoled the entire community in general and
family members of the victims in particular. He described the act as barbaric,
man’s inhumanity to man and prayed God to repose the Souls of the victims.
The Financial
expert and retired Permanent Secretary in the Plateau State Civil Service urged
the state government to stop playing politics with the lives of the people they
took oath to protect bearing in mind that God will surely judge our actions and
inaction irrespective of tribal, ethnic or religious lineages.
"The
security situation in the country has become worse in the last four years. Here
in Plateau, a new trend of kidnapping has sprung and hardly a day goes by
without one or two people fallen victims.
“I think the
government both at Federal and state levels have been paying lips service on
the issue of security of lives because we have not seen concerted efforts to
nip this problem in the bud.
“Instead,
government is fond of repeating the same statement of promise to arrest and
bring the perpetrators of these heinous crimes to book without any tangible
effort to back up the claim"
Speaking to African Drum this afternnon, Wadak said the
situation portends grave danger ahead if it is not tackled as citizens may
likely lose confidence in government and left with no other options than to
resort to other means for self defence.
"When
justice eludes a society, resort to other means by citizens for survival
becomes imperative. This Government has been talking about peace but we all
know that there can never be peace without justice. Justice is the
ultimate", he said.
NDE Wadak who is
the current Chairman of Charted Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, Jos &
District Society advised Governor Simon Lalong to consider ( just like other
states have done), adequate funding and rejigging the state Security Outfit, (
Operation Rainbow) as panacea to the current menace.
"Most states
have done it. There is the Hisbah in Kano state. Amotekun has just been
launched in the South West, so what are we waiting for? Thank God we already
have the Operation Rainbow that was created by the last government, so I urged
Governor Lalong to leverage on that, fund it adequately and rejig it to address
our peculiar security challenges", Nde Wadak said.
On whether his
submission would not be taken as ranting of the opposition, Wadak said, “such
utterances are common with the current government because it doesn't have the
capacity to differentiate between destructive and constructive criticism.
“Is there
anything I said that is not true? Has there not been increase in kidnapping
activities in Plateau state? Have there not been silent killings of innocent
people in Plateau state? Are 13 people not killed in Kumbol District in Mangu
LGA yesterday?
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| Nde Wadak |
“So, what's it
that I have said that it's my creation that could warrant someone describing my
submission as ' ranting of an opposition’? Were the 13 people killed because
they belonged to a political party? We are talking of humanity.
“We are talking
of lives of innocent people loss in a crude, barbaric and uncivilized manner.
Besides, every constructive criticism is always accompanied with advise which I
have done exactly so.
“It's left for
the government to accept or reject my advice. After all, the best democracies
in developed countries owed their success to the work of the oppositions through
constructive criticism", Wadak said.
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