Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration for what he described as its complacency in tackling the persistent insecurity in Plateau State
Dalung expressed his concerns during the Arise TV Morning Show interview on Monday.
His remarks followed the k!lling of over 50 people in Bokkos Local Government Area of the state over the weekend after gunmen launched fresh attacks on several communities.
Dalung said, “There is nothing like herder-farmer clashes on the Plateau. These are t8rror!sts. They have enclaves. They grab land, wrestle cattle, and displace natives. In the bush, there is a government, and these places are known.”
He argued that the Ministry of Livestock Development, created by the Federal Government, cannot solve the crisis.
“Let us not be hiding about the Ministry of Livestock. Ministry of Livestock cannot even do anything about this problem,” he said.
“If you sum up this, you will come back to this issue of lack of a political will because if the political will to deal with the situation is there, these people will be given their rightful designation.”
He insisted that the attackers were t8rror!sts, saying, “If we must be very honest in dealing with the Plateau situation, first, we will have to stop pretending that it is herder-farmers’ clashes. Not at all. It is t8rror!sm.
“It is genoc!dal because it has met the international definition of genoc!de. When a group of people attack another group with the intention of wiping them off the face of the earth, it is genoc!de. When you employ a policy of starvation and try to use that to wipe out a community or a group of people, it’s genoc!de. So what is happening is genoc!dal.
“There was no farm or other animals that were either wrestled by the community or they trespassed into any farmland that resulted in this series of attacks we are hearing.”
He also questioned the readiness of the security agencies to tackle the crisis.
“We couldn’t do anything because there are no access roads. I couldn’t fathom that because in a technologically-driven economy like ours, would the issue be that of access roads? What happened to drones and cameras, other sophisticated gadgets of intelligence gathering?” he said.
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