From Yakubu Busari, Jos
Mr Yilla
A founder and financier of Yillah Foundation, Chief Dennis Yillah, has urged Governor Lalong to think of the long term social, cultural and economic implications the Ruga settlement policy of the federal government before ceding any land in the state for the scheme.
He said the governor may by the acceptance of the scheme act against the well-being and wishes of the vast majority of the citizens of the state who overwhelmingly voted him into power.
The Ngas born Europe based businessman said the act of accepting to cede an inch of any ancestral land for the purpose of Ruga settlements that seeks to favour only the Fulani herdsmen is an act of treachery against the indigenous people of the state, and would be vehemently resisted by men of goodwill.
Mr. Yillah chided the governor for doing everything to please the Buhari led APC administration, even when such is clearly detrimental to the well being of the Plateau people.
Mr Yillah called on the state legislature to call the governor to order, and enjoined elder statesmen from Plateau to rise up to the occasion and ensure the Ruga settlement policy does not get ground on the Plateau.
He expressed concern that despite the near absence of infrastructural developmental initiative embarked upon in the four years of the Buhari administration, by way of building schools or hospitals, the Buhari administration is bent on building settlements for his kinsmen at the expense of our common wealth.
“Such desperation exhibited by Mr President to please only the Fulani pastoralists, is lending credence to the recent alarm raised by former President Obasanjo that the Buhari administration is pursuing a ‘Fulanisation’ agenda”, the statement said.
He calls on youths across the 17 local government areas of the state to resist the ‘Fulanization’ agenda of President Buhari.
“Plateau lands are for Plateau People, and must not be allowed to be given out to aliens under whatever guise,” the statement added.
