Plateau Commissioner, Joshua Laven Charges Plateau Natives To Stop Crying And Face Killers, Advocates For State Police As Remedy
Yakubu Busari
The Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Plateau State,Hon .Ubandoma Joshua Laven has charged the natives of the state to imbibe 24-hour surveillance as he advocated for the introduction of state police in border communities towards monitoring and checking all routes connecting to villages.
He called on the Plateau natives to stop gathering to mourn our slaughtered brethren by Fulani militia fighters anytime they strike in the state.
Joshua disclosed this at the Secretariat Round during the Plateau Youth Peace G17 Kindle light ceremony to commensurate the death of the recent killings in Barkin-Ladi, Riyom, Mangu, and Wase LGAs.
Laven stated that as the Former Local Government Council Chairman of Langtang North, the Southern people have a well-organized security network between Langtang South, North, and Kadarko District to checkmate the influx of militia fighters marauding in the night.
He said,” We can’t continue with this attitude of gathering together and wearing black attires in the name of mourners but as a people, we have to take urgent steps to keep vigilant of what is happening around us.
According to him, the Tarok people 25 years ago took surveillance of the security network to ensure that their communities were safe throughout the night and daylight and nobody went to sleep.
Laven stated that we need a local security setting and let us stop deceiving ourselves because Aman from Kano, Enugu states will never understand the security situation in Plateau State in Wase , Langtang North, so they won’t go there to protect you from the attackers.
“A man from Mikang , Wase will surely understand what I am talking about because it is our terrace all our mountains top from Mararaba Jarmaa towards Hawa Kibo slum who will understand the hills better than the local vigilantes they’re the ones that are saddled with the responsibility but they’re not empowered.
“We are here crying, they said security is everyone’s business then why are we not involved in the protection of our lives, why not involve Plateau Youth to me the hour has come for us to stop crying and stop wearing black clothes mourning while our killers those that are committing this act of crimes are celebrating while we are here and those that are killing are gone.
“We never see them again, they butchered, massacred, and slaughtered our aged, children, and women and a two-month-old child was shot with an AK47 raffle, then what is his crime? Does he commit to see us here crying I don’t think that is the solution,” Ubandoma Joshua lamented.
He pledged unalloyed loyalty to the federal government to allow our people to take charge of the security network so it is time to allow the state to take control of the security.
Ubandoma Joshua stressed that the genocide started in 1998 in Plateau Southern Senatorial District, we don’t stop anymore in the Southern zone.
He urged the people of Plateau North and Central Senatorial zones to organize 24-hour surveillance by taking proactive measures to end the attacks for the past 25 years the Southern Plateau has been keeping night watch on the attackers.
Laven called on the Plateau people to imbibe the same proactive measures because it doesn’t matter anymore , they come in the night to destroy when it is time for us to be alert.
The Commissioner lambasted politicians that he no longer envies leaders of politics because everyone stands as an accused person now.
