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Killings Persist in Bassa Despite CDS, COAS Visit to Plateau
From Jude Dangwam, Jos
No fewer than three persons were killed at Hukke community of Irigwe Chiefdom in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, leaving three others with gunshot injuries.
This is coming barely four days after four people were attacked in Bassa Local Government area of the state by persons suspected to be Fulani militias.
Secretary General of Irigwe Development Association (IDA), Mr.
Danjuma Auta in a press statement made available o newsmen yesterday in Jos, disclosed that his people may boycott the forthcoming local council elections as a protest against the silence by the government over the ongoing killings of people in the area.“Recently, we have been receiving series of a commodore attacks when our people are ambushed and killed,” Auta said.
The most recent was the one that happened at twin hills two weeks back were two persons were killed one sustain serious injuries.
Auta stressed that another that took place at Ribakwa community left four killed. As the situation persist with yet another attacked on Sunday night where the attackers attacked Hukke village and killed three persons namely, Barry Ive 42 years, Isaiah Gado 45 years of age and Weyi Chohu 40 years old were killed.
Meanwhile three other locals, who sustained gunshot injuries from the attackers and are currently receiving treatment at various medical centers are Bosco Gbere 50 years old, Barnabas Lundi 20 years of age and Moses Bombo 28 years.
The National Secretary lamented that while the Irigwe people were busy exploring every necessary step in stopping anything that has brought any misunderstanding with the Fulanis, our people are now target of elimination as they have now devise a different way of eliminating us, he alleged.
He said the silence of government and security agencies leaves much to wonder, while this has continued, the authorities in the state has remain mute as if nothing was happening and we as a people cannot continue to watch this kind of negligence.
“We called on government to be more proactive, the security of lives and property of its people must be Paramount and if steps are not taken to address this unwarranted killing of our people, we as a nation would like to draw the attention of government that we’ll boycott the fourth coming LGAs election as a way of registering our grievances.
“We call on security operatives to intensify efforts in ensuring that this ugly killing is nip in the bud. Enough to all this because government knows exactly who the killers are and must fish them out,” Auta added.
Recently, the Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Lucky Irabor and the Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen. Farouk Yahaya, who visited Plateau State, assured of ending to the killings in the troubled LGAs of Plateau State.
However, the recent trend leaves so many questions whether the situation in Plateau State will truly be nib in the bud or not.
The Police Public Relations Officer Plateau State Police Command, ASP Gabriel Ubah confirmed the development, saying more security personnel have been deployed to the affected community while investigation is ongoing to fish out the perpetrators.
The Police Command in Yobe, says it has detained a man, Yunus Isa, in connection with alleged murder of his business partner, Lawan Adamu.
This is contained in a statement by the Spokesman of the command, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, in Damaturu on Thursday.
Report says that Adamu’s body was found on Sept.
15, with deep throat cut and stab wounds at Nayinawa area of Damaturu.Abdulkarim said credible intelligence led to the arrest of a prime suspect in the case, Isa, at Shago Tara near Nayinawa.
“Investigation revealed that Lawan Adamu was his employer and business partner in the engine oil trade.
“He (the suspect) borrowed N500,000 from Adamu last year with a profit-sharing agreement.
“However, when he failed to meet the agreement terms, the deceased demanded repayment.
“Isa callously murdered Adamu to avoid repaying the debt, killing him in cold blood,” he said.
The spokesman noted that the swift resolution of the case demonstrated the command’s commitment towards ensuring justice and public safety.
He said the suspect would soon be charged to court. (NAN)
Borno Government says it has realized over N12b cash and material donations for victims of Alau Dam flood disaster in Maiduguri.
Abdurrahman Bundi, the Senior Special Adviser on New Media to Borno Governor, gave the update on the donations for the Maiduguri Relief Fund on Thursday in Maiduguri.
Bundi said the donations came from corporate entities, state governments, State and National Assembly members, individuals, and Non-Governmental Organisations.
List of donors showed that the North East Development Commission (NEDC) donated N3b and food stuff, Aliko Dangote N2b, Aminu Dantata N1.5b, and Mohammed Indimi N1b.
Other donors were Borno LGAs; N1.
2b, Oluremi Tinubu; N500m, Bauchi and Niger states; N250m each while the people of Southern Borno donated N200m.Dahiru Mangal, Atiku Abubakar, Rep. Mukhtar Betara, Ali Modu Sheriff, House of Representatives, Abdulsalam Kachala, and JAIZ Bank states comprising Kebbi, Yobe, Kano, Taraba, katsina, Kaduna and Zamfara gave N100 each.
The Director General of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Buba Marwa and Matrix Energy donated 10 trucks of fertiliser and foodstuff worth over N120m each.
Those who gave N50m include Adamawa state, Mr Peter Obi, Rabiu kwakwanso, Ahmed Lawan, Mohammad Maifata, Ibrahim Umar, Mohammad Imam, Ali Dalori, Bauchi APC chapter, Sen. Tahir Monguno, and Sen. Kaka Kaka Shehu and I8th Engineering Company, while the State Assembly donated N60m.
The Nasarawa Government also presented six trucks of rice, spaghetti and sugar.
Many other people donated between N1m and N30m respectively. (NAN)
The Performance Delivery and Coordination Unit (PDCU), says it has concluded mid-year performance review of Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs), to enhance good governance in the state.
The PDCU being supervised by the office of Gov. Umar Namadi, conducted a three-day retreat on the review mid-year performance of the MDAs.
This is contained in a statement by Hashim Hashim, the unit’s Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Facilitator, in Dutse on Thursday.
He said the unit interfaced with representatives of the MDAs to verify submitted data on the progress recorded against set targets in the performance bond earlier signed in January.
According to him, the workshop is pivotal in streamlining government achievements into one single scorecard and finalising the mid-year performance reports for the attention of the governor.
The statement quoted the PDCU Coordinator, Adamu Muhammad, who doubles as Public Private Secretary to the governor, as stressing the importance of the exercise in driving the manifested 12-Point Agenda of the governor.
Muhammad was quoted as emphasising the need for the members of the unit to scrutinise and fine tune all the submitted evidence for accuracy, relevance and completeness.
The coordinator lauded the FCDO-PERL programme for the support to the state government in actualising the PDCU and supporting the review process.
“The PDCU comprises of professional technocrats selected based on merit and specialisation to support the delivery of the Governor’s 12-Point Agenda”. (NAN)
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