The Minister of Youth and
Sports Development, Mr Solomon Dalung, on Wednesday condemned the renewed killing of innocent
citizens in parts of Plateau, and reiterated the call for the declaration of a
state of emergency in the area.
Dalung told State House
correspondents in Abuja that the resurgence of killings in the state was
shameful.
According to him, the
declaration of a state of emergency in the area will put a stop to the
unwarranted killing of people.
The minister, who is an
indigene of Plateau, however, said that when imposed, state of emergency should
not involve the disruption of the democratic structure in the state.
“I’m not happy with the
resurfacing of killing in Jos considering the fact that I personally played a
major role in the restoration of relative peace in the state.
“Gov. Simon Lalong as the
leader of the people must summon joint security meeting involving all
stakeholders in the state to deliberate on the current insecurity in Plateau
state.
“It is also imperative for
President Buhari to immediate declare state of emergency by way of deploying
military personnel to the troubled local government areas in the state to check
the unfortunate incident,’’ he said.
He frowned at those
apportioning blame on the federal government over the persistent crisis in the
Plateau, saying that President Buhari had taken various security measures aimed
at addressing the problem.
The minister, therefore,
against politicizing the killing of innocent Nigerians as the federal
government was doing all it could to bring the perpetrators of the heinous
crime to book.
He added that Nigeria
needed peace and stability for the country to progress and achieve meaningful
development.
Dalung, who narrated the
achievements of the Buhari administration in the past three years, expressed optimism that the
President, the sole presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), would record landslide victory in the
2019 election.
He said that President
Buhari’s major fault which had continued to attract criticism from his
opponents was his ability to expose wrong doings in all spheres of the nation’s
socio-economic sector.
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