…Deal Decisively With Insecurity In Nigeria Now, Kaigama Tells Tinubu Amid Rising Killings In Plateau
Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has apologised to the people of Bassa Local Government Area (LGA) for the failure of government and security agencies to protect lives and properties.
Fifty-one persons were gunned down early Monday in the Zikke community of the LGA, with houses razed and many displaced about two weeks after a similar attack led to the killing of scores of persons in Bokkos Local Government Area.
Less than a day after the most recent assault, Governor Mutfwang apologised for the government’s inability to protect the people.
The governor said this on Tuesday at the palace of the Paramount Ruler of the Miango community of the state.
“I will tell you the truth: I have been crying since yesterday because I had trusted God that all the arrangements were put in place, that this will not happen again. We have made investments in security,” he said.
“But like all human arrangements, sometimes they fail. I want to admit that on Sunday night into Monday morning, we failed you. Please, forgive me.”
He urged the people not to relent in their efforts to secure their communities and ensure that they compliment security agencies efforts by providing vital information for intelligence gathering and expose the antics of the criminals.
Governor Mutfwang, in the company of security chiefs and members of the state executive council, was in Zikke community to commiserate with the people on the death of over fifty persons killed in Monday’s attacks.
The Paramount Ruler of Irigwe land, Ronku Aka, who is the Brangwe of Irigwe, urged the government to come to the aid of the communities with the provision of social amenities in the area.
The governor and the entourage also went to see some of the families who lost their loved ones in the attack. The victims have been buried just as members of the community demanded action to stem the rising wave of insecurity in the state.
Plateau State has been a hotbed of lingering attacks, but the renewed spate of attacks adds a fresh layer of twist to the decades-long crisis rocking the North-Central state.
After the most recent assaults, President Bola Tinubu ordered security agencies to fish out the masterminds, describing the attacks as condemnable.
While experts have linked the lingering Plateau crisis to farmers-herders tussle for resources, Governor Muftwang said it was sponsored and genocidal.
According to him, over 64 communities in the state have been taken over by gunmen.
Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Abuja, Most Rev. Dr. Ignatius Kaigama, urged President Bola Tinubu to deal decisively with insecurity in Nigeria.
Kaigama made this call on Tuesday at a Chrism Mass in Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral Area 3, Garki Abuja.
Speaking to journalists on the spate of killings in Plateau State and other parts of Nigeria, Kaigama lamented that insecurity has developed branches and spread like a monster across Nigeria.
He said all security operatives must restrategize their approach to end the widespread insecurity in the country.
He added that resources allocated to fight insecurity in the country must be used honestly and transparently.
“When the Catholic Bishop went to see him, that is President Bola Tinubu, we had to appeal to him that he must rise to the occasion, and do things well.
“There was a time when it was only Boko Haram; another time it was militant, now herdsmen. Now, insecurity has diversified. Criminality has developed branches. It is a monster, spreading in all directions. There is a need for restrategizing. Whatsoever the security agencies are doing has worked to an extent, but there is no solution yet.
“There should be an inter-agency corporation. There should be no competition. All the security forces should go all out for criminals. These people are not ghosts.
“I am hoping that a new step will be taken. We insist that good work must be done.
“The resources voted for security must be used honestly and transparently,” he said
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