From Jude Owuamanam Jos
Senate President, Goodwill Akpabio, has promised that the leadership of the National Assembly will do everything in its power to end the spate of sectarian killings on the Plateau.
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Akpabio speaking at the funeral service of the wife of the Senator representing Plateau Central, Diket Plang, Prof. Janet Plang, at the Church of Christ in Nation (COCIN) headquarters in Jos on Friday, expressed regrets that despite all the efforts to end the killings on the Plateau, it has continued unabated
Akpabio, while responding to the plea of the Governor Caleb Mutfwang for an urgent response from the Federal Government on the needless murder of innocent indigenes of the state by terrorists said, “As the President of the 10th Senate, I hear you loud and clear and be rest assured that your travails will be given the needed attention and response from the relevant agencies and the Egyptians you see today, you shall see them no more.
“Let me on behalf of my distinguished colleagues condole with your government and the people of Plateau State on this needless and unwarranted loss of lives. I assure you that your message would be delivered to President Bola Tinubu and something would be done very urgently to protect the lives and property of the people living in this state.”
He also donated the sum of N50 million to the church. In his condolence message, the Senate President described late Janet Plang as “quintessential woman and mother, who loved humanity and did all within her powers to inculcate same in the lives of our children.
Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang, speaking earlier berated those who described the killings as a result of farmers/herders clash.
While referring to the recent attacks where 14 people returning from a market in Bokkos were gruesomely murdered, Mutfwang said: “It pains my heart when people say that it’s farmers herders/clash How do you kill a three-year-old child? For what? And then somebody comes to tell me it was a reprisal attack. For what? I would beg the Senate of the Republic to help us.
“In my position, I cannot be irresponsible to despise the efforts of the security agencies. That is why I said last Wednesday when I visited, that I cannot ask that the baby be thrown with the bathwater.
“But the truth is, there are good soldiers and bad soldiers. Let the truth be told. And that is why, we need voices, the right voices, speaking in the right places.
“I’ve been vilified that I’m trying to cast aspersions on the security agencies. Where they have done well, they know I have praised them. Where some of their men have betrayed them, we have also said, look into your men.
“I never asked that soldiers should leave Plateau State. But the people themselves cried out. But I said, no, we must find a way to re-motivate our security agencies so that they can do their job better.”
He described the deceased as an illustrious daughter of Plateau, a professor in her own right, the daughter of a professor who had demonstrated her own intellectual capacity.
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