Plateau Twin Bomb Explosion: Gov. Lalong Appeals For Calm

By Yakubu Busari, Jos

The Executive Governor of Plateau State Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong has called on the inhabitants of Jos North and the entire citizens of the State to remain calm in the midst of the unfortunate multiple bomb blasts that hit the state on Sunday Night.

Our correspondent reports that shortly after the blasts some youths took to streets protesting which resulted to sporadic gun shots from the security agents who were apposite to contain the situation.

Report said the blasts occurred in the neighbourhood of Dilimi-Yan Taya and Bauchi Road which has left no fewer than 48 persons dead and 67 injured.

However the state government said  it is highly regrettable that the incident happened at a time Moslems faithful have settled to the fulfilment of a religious obligation, and agents of death, chaos and anarchy have chosen to disrupt the peace of the state by orchestrating a spade of sporadic bomb blast to portray a state of dissatisfaction that pitches otherwise peaceful cohabitants against themselves.

“The unfortunate incidence of the sporadic bomb blasts at Bauchi Road and Dilimi -Yan Taya as well as the sporadic gun shots within the Jos Metropolis on Sunday 5th July, 2015 in this month of religious piety for the Moslem Ummah on the Plateau is highly condemnable.

In a statement from the Director of Press and Public Affairs to Governor Lalong said the Executive Governor of Plateau State is deeply touched over the incident and has chosen to commiserate with all the victims of this heinous act and calls on all citizens of the State to remain calm and stand in solidarity with one another in the face of this onslaught by agents of death on the collective resolve to remain as one united people in spite of ethnic and religious difference.

“The Government of Plateau State is more than committed to consolidating on the peace process that has seen the peace loving people of Plateau living in peace and standing united against the force of terror which seeks to set the people against themselves and portray the imaginary existence of religious divide with deliberate attacks on religious faithful at times like this. Government will most certainly continue with her on-going consultative peace dialogue with a view to fishing out agents of destabilization and wade off the spade of systematic attacks which seem to show that the eminent end of insecurity is not at sight”.