CRIME

Plateau Massive Killings: Disagreements, Twists Amongst IGP, Senator And Reps Member

<h4>Plateau Massive Killings<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the unending killings in several parts of Plateau State have generated into sharp disagreements and twists among governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang &comma; the Inspector General of Police&comma; Kayode Egbetokun&comma; Senator Napoleon Binkap Bali and Honourable Dachung Musa Bagos&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The disagreement&comma; according to OpenLife Magazine’s findings&comma; centres round distrust&comma; mode and approach to operations&comma; methodology and political intrigues&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking on the development Tuesday morning on Arise TV&comma; Senator Napoleon Binkap Bali &comma; representing Plateau South Senatorial District in the 10th Senate disagreed with his fellow legislator&comma; Honourable Dachung Musa Bagos&comma; representing Jos South&sol;Jos East Federal Constituency of Plateau State in the House Representatives&comma; on the grounds of approach to finding lasting solution to the unending killings&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Honourable Bagos&comma; while reacting to the renewed killings in Mangu and Jos South Local Government Areas of the state&comma; asked his constituents to protect themselves in line with the Nigerian constitution which guarantees right to self-defence&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He lamented that most of his constituents now live in fear&comma; adding that the attacks happen on daily basis&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sadly&comma; innocent citizens are being attacked and killed on the daily basis in Plateau State&comma; particularly in Riyom&comma; Barkin Ladi and Mangu&semi; hundreds have lost their lives since May 2023&comma; villagers can’t go to the farm&period; Several displaced persons camps&comma; land taken over&comma; farmlands destroyed&comma; what a wicked world&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Just on Saturday&comma; 12 persons were killed in Mangu and also yesterday night&comma; seven of my constituents who are miners were targeted and gunned down&semi; this barbaric act is condemned&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In the face of this kind of breakdown in the will and capacity of the government to protect the people and their communities&comma; law-abiding citizens must organise to protect themselves&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The point here is when the government failed in its constitutional role to protect its people&comma; citizens have a legitimate duty in law and morality to ensure the continuity of human life&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Self-defence is indeed a constitutional right&period; Under section 14&lpar;2&rpar;&lpar;b&rpar; of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Accordingly&comma; Section 17&lpar;2&rpar;&lpar;b&rpar; of the same constitution requires that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the sanctity of the human person shall be recognised” and to reinforce this&comma; section 33&lpar;2&rpar;&lpar;a&rpar; makes self-defence lawful when undertaken in &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;defence of any person from unlawful violence or for the defence of property&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I want to call on all Plateau citizens to be alert and defend themselves against attackers&comma; and all Plateau State citizens must unite to defend the land&period; We are peaceful people&comma; but our inheritance which is our land will never be taken by force&comma;”<&sol;a> Honourable Bagos said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But Senator Bali&comma; 59 and a retired Air Vice Marshall disagreed with Honourable Bagos saying that he does not support anti law mode of operations&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I do not support people taking laws into their own hands&comma; ” Bali said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The security expert&comma; who trained in some of the overseas security institutions&comma; emphasized that the killings in several parts of Plateau State is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;politically motivated&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He stressed that the renewed killings&comma; especially in Mangu local government area of the State where governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang hails from&comma; is an extension of the plot to continuously embarrass the newly sworn in governor&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Senator Bali disclosed that the Inspector General of Police&comma; Kayode Egbetokun&comma; 58&comma; has been unhelpful in the precarious situation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He noted that only recently&comma; governor Mutfwang was in Abuja and spent several days to see the Inspector General but could only see him for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Just few minutes before he went back to Plateau State&period; ”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Happening at a time Egbetokun&comma; who recently took oath of office as the 22nd Inspector General of Police&comma; boasted&comma; on assumption of office&comma; that he is a lion ready to devour criminals&comma; Senator Bali sensed that relying on the Inspector General might not offer any succuor to the challenges in Plateau State&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He therefore&comma; called on President Bola Tinubu to direct the National Security Adviser&comma; NSA&comma; Mallam Nuhu Ribadu&comma; to take immediate action on the killing crises rocking the once peaceful Plateau State&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The non state actors have the time and space&period; They can operate and melt into the society without anyone knowing who they are&period; So&comma; the President has to be involved in Mangu violence&period; He should direct the NSA to take immediate action&comma; ” Senator Bali disclosed and suggested&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It would be recalled that only in May&comma; it was reported that over 100 persons were killed by terrorists in Plateau State within 48 hours&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The attackers were said to have burnt houses&comma; farms and stored agricultural inputs&comma; among other destructions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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