Plateau Communities Accuse Governor Lalong Of Total Neglect

Yakubu Busari

The ward head of Jenta   Adamu, Da Kabala Bako Gode has decried the absence of federal and state government in the area providing social amenities to the residents where they are predominantly civil servants either working for the state or staff of federal with no accessible road network, drinking water, and police outpost attach considering the high rate occultism, raping going on.

 

 

Kabala expressed displeasure with the manner the three communities have been experiencing constant motor accidents killing people without intervention from the government.

 

According to him, “as a community, we are always mourning our loved ones because the road is no longer healthy and people are trapped kill while government neglected them completely on the scheme of thing “.

 

He disclosed that with the rising cases of insecurity Jenta Adamu road network had been abandon so when criminal elements are being chased they always escape due to the bad nature of roads linking residents.

 

Gode lamented that Jenta Adamu is attached to the federal road but the government refused vehemently to focus her attention and you can see hoodlums hijacking our communities by terrorizing our people all the time.

 

He appealed to the Plateau state government to as a matter of urgency create alternative routes or parks for heavy vehicles and by restricting their movement in the morning until midnight to help reduce constant accidents around the polo.

 

 

Kabala Gode noted that Jenta Adamu, Kabong, and Angwan-Suya Communities in Jos -North local government Area of Plateau state are blaming governor Bako Lalong administration for total neglect, despite the votes the governor garner in the affected wards that brings him into Power.

 

 

He maintained that we have nothing to show for the votes we cast him during the governorship election as the Communities still lacking some basic amenities ranging from potable drinking water, accessible motorable roads, devoid of government-owned primary and secondary schools as the case may be.

 

 

The head of the Communities stated this today 14th December 2020 in an interview with journalists during a peace rally organized by the Youths of the Communities to draw the attention of the government to the incessant accidents occasioned by trucks plying the Area around Polo roundabout which has consumed lives and rendered many Incapacitated.

 

The chief said with the incessant loss of lives in the affected spot occasioned by trucks drivers who claimed to have failed break, and the call to the government of the state to regulate the activities of trailers plying the road during busy hours at the city center causing Carnage, fell on a deaf ear as the heavy trucks continued to commit havoc unabated.

 

The Community leader called on governor Lalong to come to their aid as his neglect is beginning to make the Communities regret if they have make mistake by voting him into power as the Governor.

 

On the insecurity bedeviling the Communities, occasioned by rampant cases of cultism, the Chief said the activities of the boys in a rampage killing themselves, in the name of cultism is condemnable but quick to state that the government is also will share part of the blame as the Communities lacked functional police outpost and another security out Post to help to assist in the arrest of the insecurity situation.

 

 

He stressed that the insecurity in the affected Communities is further compounded largely because the terrain is bad and not accessible because of bad roads as it’s easy for the criminals and the occult group to escape through the pathway before the arrival of the security agents.

 

 

He blamed Governor Lalong for blinding his eyes against the Communities that gives him enormous votes which enable him to win the 2015 and 2019 general elections.

 

 

 

He reiterated his appeals to the government of Plateau state led by Governor Bako Lalong to at least provide the Communities with motorable roads and other basic amenities provide, that will make the Communities’ inhabitant worthwhile.