Plateau State Governor, Mr. Jonah Jang, has raised the alarm over
alleged plans by terrorists to attack some parts of the state during the
Christmas and New Year celebrations.
The governor, who spoke in Jos at the 2013 harvest and thanksgiving
service of the COCIN Headquarters Church, said security reports
available to him indicated that the planned attack could be massive if
not checked. It was gathered that the security scare might have
informed the cancellation of the scheduled January 30, 2014
local government election in Jos North and Wase local government areas.
While Jos North is the theatre of the communal strife in the northern
zone, Wase, in the southern zone of the state, has been the centre of
the ethnic war between the indigenous Taroh community and the
Hausa/Fulani pastoralists.
He regretted that despite the efforts to restore permanent peace in the
state, there were people who were bent on truncating the peace moves.
Jang called on the people of the state to protect the hard-earned peace
the state had been experiencing in the last couple of months, stressing
that the people as well as security outfits must be on the watch for
strange faces and report same to the security. The governor said, “For a
long time, we have enjoyed peace on the Plateau but recent security
reports available to the government point to the fact that some
terrorists want to take the advantage of this Christmas to attack
Plateau.
But we must be watchful; we must not go to sleep because keeping peace
is not the job of government alone. We must report suspicious characters
in our midst and that’s the only way we can defeat them. “We have to be
watchful at all times as the enemies of the state will stop at nothing
but to pull down the foundation that has been laid, but I am very
optimistic that God will vindicate the state.
Amen to that......
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