{"id":10118,"date":"2018-06-26T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2018-06-26T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:54:16","slug":"plateau-gets-new-police-boss-as-buhari-plans-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10118","title":{"rendered":"Plateau gets new Police boss, as Buhari plans visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Ron-well Jacob,<\/strong> Jos.
\nThe Plateau crisis may have claimed its first victim with the redeployment of the State Police Commissioner, Indie Aide.
\nA new commissioner, Bala Ciroma, resumes as speculations were rife in Jos that President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to arrive this Tuesday afternoon for a stakeholders meeting.
\nVice President Yemi Osinbajo, who was in Jos, the Plateau State capital, Monday returned same night.
\nBuhari is expected to make a stop over on his way from Calabar, the Cross River State capital where he went to commission a rice farm project.
\nSocial media has been agog with criticisms over what many describe as the partial disposition of the presidency, which deemed it fit to send the number two man to Jos after the loss of 200 lives, while the President vsited Bauchi over a storm and a burnt market in Azare town.
\nNearly 20 lives were lost in the unprecedented storm that levelled structures in Bauchi town.<\/p>\n

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\nMeanwhile,\u00a0<\/strong>Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has described recent killings and violence in Plateau State as vicious and horrible, reiterating the resolve of the Federal Government to find permanent solutions to problems of insecurity in the country and ensure that the perpetrators of the recent attacks in the State are brought to book.
\nProf. Osinbajo said this on Monda, according to a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, during a visit to the State where he met with leaders and representatives of communities related to the conflicts.
\nHe said, \u201cWe must condemn killings of any kind. It doesn\u2019t matter whether these killings are by herdsmen killing villagers, or whether it is villagers who in one way or the other have killed others, including herdsmen. I think it is important that we condemn these killings, in particular these killings that have taken place where so many people have lost their lives in the last few days. There is no reason at all why anyone who commits these offences will escape.\u201d
\nNoting that security have been beefed up by the deployment of more police and military personnel to the affected areas, the Vice President said justice will be done and those arrested will be duly prosecuted.
\n\u201cThe head of the Operation Safe Haven as well as the DIG (Police) have confirmed to me that some arrests have been made and those persons will face the law, and that more arrests will be made. I think it is important that we ensure that there is justice. I want you to be sure that we will do so, we will make sure that those who have been arrested are duly prosecuted, and that others who are engaged in this heinous conduct are also arrested and prosecuted.\u201d
\nDuring the Vice President\u2019s visit, he met with community leaders in the state, noting that government will look at how to implement several suggestions proffered by the leaders in resolving the herdsmen and farmers conflicts in the state.
\nHe further said government remains committed to finding permanent solutions to the problems of insecurity.
\n\u201cIt is our duty as community leaders that we do not allow this cycle of violence to continue. As I said to the community leaders, issues like these are dealt with and resolved by men and not spirits. It is those of us who are alive and well today, those of us who are leaders, community leaders, leaders of state, local and federal governments, who must resolve these issues. And we cannot shy away from resolving the issues.\u201d
\n\u201cWe must be bold enough to be able to tell our communities that resolving these disputes is a give-and-take issue. There is no zero sum here, with so many losses, so many deaths over time. But we must find a solution, and the solution is in the type of sacrifices that leaders are prepared to make,\u201d the Vice President said.
\nProf. Osinbajo further said that one of the most important issues that must be resolved is putting an end to the continuous cycle of killings and violence in the state.
\n\u201cThose are the issues that happened that I talked about and we hope and pray that we will see an end to these cycles of violence. Again, we express our sincere condolences to all of those who have lost family and friends in this last spate of killing and we pray that the Almighty God will console the families and relations of those who have lost their lives. We pray that we never see again a repeat of these kinds of killings and these deaths,\u201d the Vice President said.
\nHe further emphasized that the Buhari administration is committed to finding a permanent solution to the conflicts.
\nProf. Osinbajo added that the federal and state governments would see to the welfare and rehabilitation of dislocated persons from the affected communities.
\n\u201cOne of the critical issues that was raised is that fact that people who have \u201cbeen dislocated from their villages and from their homesteads and who have not returned to those villages and home steads and those places have been taken over. I think that this is a serious issue, and an issue that the federal government, in collaboration with the state government, must take up, which we\u2019ll ensure that we will take up,\u201d he said.
\nAdding that relief materials would be made available by the National Emergency Management Agency, the Vice President noted that the N10 Billion fund approved for rehabilitation of farmers of the affected communities by the President would be made available to Plateau State.
\nProf. Osinbajo said, \u201cThe DG of NEMA will ensure that that is done as relief materials are provided in various areas where they are required. We have also talked about the 10billion fund which the government approved for the rehabilitation of farms and farming communities; the farmers in particular. Fortunately, we have the Deputy Chairman for Food and Security Council who is here with us; the Governor of Kebbi. That fund is to enable farmers who have not been able to farm, but who have lost farmlands to be rehabilitated and we would provide for them inputs, we would provide whatever assistance is required so that they can go back to their farms and go back to farmlands and this we are going to make available also here in Plateau State.
\n\u201cWe will look at how to implement several of those suggestions as we go along. Some include the permanent positioning of security agencies in certain communities that are prone to these types of violence. And we intend to see how we can put in place permanent security, especially the police, and in some cases, military deployment in some of those places where flashpoints tend to be on a frequent basis. And we\u2019ve agreed to some locations where this security deployment ought to be made.\u201d
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From Ron-well Jacob, Jos. The Plateau crisis may have claimed its first victim with the redeployment of the State Police Commissioner, Indie Aide. A new commissioner, Bala Ciroma, resumes as speculations were rife in Jos that President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to arrive this Tuesday afternoon for a stakeholders meeting. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}