Plateau Youth Veterans has urged the state government to synergise with the federal government to implement the anti–land grabbing law and complete the prohibition of open grazing in the state.
The group also urged security agencies to be proactive and not reactive and engage more in intelligence gathering, instead of the “fire brigade” approach which often results in limited response after the perpetrators must have caused havoc and fled the scene of crime.
The chairman of the group, Comrade Adamu Kesuwo, while addressing newsmen in
Jos in reaction to the killings in Bokkos and Bassa local government areas also called on natives and communities to resort to self-defence, adding that if the state cannot protect them, self-defence has become a necessity as provided in Section 33(2) of the Nigerian constitution which allows for self-defence in any case of unlawful violence.
He said, “We strongly and publicly reject the assertion and narrative that the killings on the Plateau are communal misunderstanding or farmer-herder clashes but a pogrom.
“We consider it an insult to the victims and their grieving families. Otherwise, what explains the phrase that “God is great”, which is often mentioned before and after the killing of a purported Plateau Christian”?
According to the group, these senseless acts are a calculated mission to erase Plateau natives from the earth and they cannot be silent over this.
