From Yakubu Busari ,Jos
Comrade Ayuba Jepla, NULGE National Auditor and Plateau state Commander of NSCDC, Compt Solomon Olasupo
The National Auditor, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Comrade Shamdung Ayuba Jepla has urged the Plateau State Governor Simon Bako Lalong to rise up the challenges of insecurity ravaging state and defend the lives of innocent people from the onslaught of attackers. Lalong is currently the Chairman of the 19 Governors’ Forum
He said, it was quite regrettable and condemnable that the killings of defenceless people of Kulben came many months after relative peace had been witnessed in the state.
He called on the state government initiate a north-central zone wide security outfit like the recently launched, ‘Amotekun’ by his counterparts in the South-west geo-political zone in the country.
According to him “this will go a long way in addressing and reducing the attacks in rural areas as a solution to the incessant killings in the state.
He said; “It is really surprising and unfortunate that at a time when we are celebrating the return of peace in the State then this sad development came in.
“For how long shall we continue to shed tears on the gruesome murder of our people by the so called unknown gunmen? The government should sit up to its security responsibility, by securing and protecting lives and property of its citizens.”
Jepla commiserated with the people of Kulben Community in Kombun District of Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Jepla said that before the killing in Kulben, people in Mangu, Bokkos, Bassa, Riyom, Barkin Ladi, Wase, Langtang, Shendam, “have suffered enough massacre from these heinous atrocities and we cannot afford such continuous loss of the precious lives of our people the way it is happening.” Meanwhile, the Commandant General of Nigeria security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has deployed security personnel to maintain the peace at Local Government Council of Mangu, where gunmen killed eleven persons on Wednesday.
In a statement by the Plateau State commandant, Compt Solomon Olasupo in Jos on Friday, the Corps urged community leaders to bury their differences and embrace peace just at it appealed to all citizens in the state to allow peace to reign.
According to him, “we are brothers and sisters so we should imbibe the spirit of tolerance and peaceful co-existence in promoting unity and progress of our nation.
“We are the same family, we should deceased from revenge and reprisal attack, because without Peace, the state can not grow economically, God created us to live together as one family in spite of our culture and language differences .
