FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS ITS COMMITTED TO RESTORE PEACE IN PLATEAU AFTER OVER 100 DEATH OF RESIDENTS

“Mr. President, given the number of villages that have been completely ravaged, I wish to re-echo the earlier request we made as a state, for an emergency special intervention fund to help us reconstruct our ravaged communities,”Lalong requested.

Penpushing further reports that security operatives stationed at the venue of the meeting with the President barred journalists from the hall and this nearly degenerated into rancour. It is recalled that, over 50 houses were razed in about 11 communities during the bloody spree of violence allegedly perpetrated by armed herdsmen.

Meanwhile, the Plateau Government had since announced a dusk to dawn curfew in Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Jos South local government areas to check possible breakdown of law and order in the state.