Governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have donated N100 Million naira to Plateau State to assist victims of gunmen attacks in Bokkos, Mangu, Barkin-ladi local government Areas of the State.
The Governors made the donation in Jos the State Capital when they visited Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang to commiserate with him over the recent attacks in the state .
The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Bauchi State Bala Mohammed, who conveyed condolences on behalf of the forum and the entire PDP Family, to Mutfwang, stressed the need to put an end to the killings in the state and and expressed confidence in Governor Mutfwang’s ability to address it with wisdom and courage.
“We are here to condole with you, we will continue to support you. We urge you to be strong. We understand the pains you are going through that is why we are calling on the Federal Government to reconsider the establishment of state police as a crucial step to address the prevailing security challenges across the country.
“We are just been very honest with ourselves. We are not just indicting and discriminating the Nigerian police or the security, they are doing their best, but certainly the ratio between citizens and policing is very low and the states know the familiarities of their States and local governments and their towns and villages and even the crisis of community crisis and others.
“So, we have always been advocating there is no distance between the governance at the National level but we need to get some decentralization of the security apparatus so that we can enhance good governance by having good state police. And so we are donating the sum on One Hundred Million Naira to help rehabilitate these victims, ” he said.
Appreciating his colleagues for the solidarity, Governor Caleb Mutfwang acknowledged that, the matter they were confronting were not entirely peculiar to Plateau State.
It has become almost a national challenge dealing with the issues of insecurity. The neglect of the last Administration where you are tempted to think that even the perpetrators of the insecurity were even being supervised by the state and this has made them to become emboldened to continue to unleash terror on innocent lives.
By the grace of God we are not deterred. We are also trying to ensure that we build inter and intra community harmony. One thing I have said consistently since becoming government is that nobody can go in alone. We need unity across the divides of faith, across the divides of ethnicity. If we don’t achieve it, it’s going to be difficult for the country to be secured,” Mutfwang stated.
Our correspondent reports that the PDP governors present at the condolence visit to Mutfwang were Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, who chairs the forum ,Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state , Ahmadu Frintiri of Adamawa State; Peter Mba of Enugu State, Godwin Obaseki of Edo and Sen Jackson Adeleke of Osun State.
Lateefah Ibrahim
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