OUTRAGE, ANGER OVER PLATEAU KILLINGS:
Tinubu, Abbas, NGF tasks Security operatives to fish out perpetrators .
Worried by the unabating violence and killings, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given security operatives matching order to fish out perpetrators of killings of citizens in Bokkos , Plateau state .
Tinubu condemned the killings of innocent Nigerians and vowed that his administration will no longer tolerate lawlessness and impunity.
Death toll from the mindless killings rose to 52 persons in Ruwi, Hurti, and Tadai communities in Bokkos Local Government Area (LGA) as well as those from Manguna and Dafo villages at the weekend.
Tinubu in a statement signed by his spokesman Bayo Onanuga said he has directed security operatives to hunt down the attackers and bring them to face justices .
“These intermittent attacks should have no place in our country at a time when we are working so hard to restore peace and order in all parts of our country “, the president lamented .
He assured Plateau state Governor Caleb Mutfwang of his support in ending this spate of wanton bloodletting in the state.
Meanwhile, Thisdaylive reports that Amnesty International has accused Nigerian government of abandoning its constitutional responsibilities to protect lives and properties.
The Amnesty International pointed out that the lack of accountability is encouraging impunity in the land . The organisation therefore demanded justice for the victims .
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Musa Krishi, expressed anger over the attacks, saying they were senseless and barbaric.
Abbas lamented the killings, injuries, and destruction of property, describing the incident as “one too many.”
A distressed governor Caleb Muftwang lamented that the killings in Plateau is beyond farmers/ herders clash but deliberately sponsored by some criminal merchants .
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) through its Chairman and Governor of Gombe State, Inuwa Yahaya, in a statement issued in Gombe, expressed deep sorrow over the tragic incidents, which claimed several lives and left scores injured, mostly women and children.
The statement, made available to journalists in Gombe by the Director-General, Press Affairs, Gombe Government House, Ismaila Uba-Misilli, Yahaya, while commiserating with families of victims as well as the government and people of Plateau, decried the cycle of attacks on rural communities in the North.
He described the persistent shedding of innocent blood as a stain on the conscience of the region and the nation.
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