Plateau killing: Suspend your foreign trips, Jang tells Lalong
A former governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, has called on his successor and incumbent governor, Simon Lalong, to suspend his foreign trip and return home to tackle the growing insecurity in the state.
Jang, representing Plateau North in the Senate, was reacting to the Tuesday’s shooting of nine persons at Rim Diyan community junction in the Riyom Local Government Area of the state.
The ex-governor, in a statement by his media consultant, Clinton Garuba, described the killing as a “wicked act in these precarious times.”
He demanded that the Federal Government should organise a national conference to discuss the attacks on farmers by herdsmen, who he said “are now arguably more deadly than Boko Haram.”
Lalong departed from the country to attend a fundraising for internally displaced persons in the state, where an award was conferred on him by the Plateau State indigenes in the United Kingdom.
It was, however, not clear if the governor had returned to Nigeria.
Jang also joined the agitation for the banning of open grazing by cattle rearers, saying it had been responsible for the crisis between herdsmen and indigenes.
He expressed optimism that “one day, the merchants of evil, who are terrorising the Middle Belt and other parts of the country, will be brought to justice.”
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