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Plateau Killings: When will Gen. Buhari prosecute terrorists?-Hon. Bitrus
Kaze asks.
By J
oseph A. Adudu
January 10, 2020.
Hon. Bitrus Kaze has said that the
people of Plateau State have lost confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari for
his inability to stop the annihilation of the people of the state. In a
statement today and a copy made available to African Drum, Kaze, former member
who represented Jos South/Jos East in the House of Representatives in the wake
of killing of 13 people in Kombol, in Mangu
Local Government Area of Plateau state by suspected Fulani herdsmen
said, “The security agencies particularly the STF deserve to be commended for
making arrests; however we hope that the suspects will not be transferred to
Abuja (as usual) on their way to the de-radicalization camps of this
administration.
“Plateau has
lost confidence given Gen Buhari’s obvious failure to reverse the annihilation
of our people. The Federal government is quick to point to convictions on
selected cases in the EFCC but no terrorists have been successfully prosecuted
under this administration”. He said.
While
sympathizing with affected families, government and people of Plateau State
over the mass killing, Hon. Kaze said that the unfortunate incident was coming
on the day Operation Amotekun (the homebred security outfit) was launched in
Abeokuta by governors from the South West; and urged Gov Lalong to take a cue
and consolidate on the Operation Rainbow by domesticating it further in both
content and context. “The time is now for the government and people of Plateau
state to design our own means of survival, nobody else understand our plight better”,
said Kaze.
Kaze further commended Gov Lalong’s prompt visit
to the affected community, however he noted that government’s response to these
intractable mass murders must go beyond image-laundering public statements and
spur-of-the-moment visits. “From the killing fields in BarkinLadi, Bokkos,
Bassa and now Mangu LGA (to mention a few), the continued destruction of lives
and properties stands the rhetoric on its head that government’s appointments
account for peace on the Plateau.
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