Nasarawa PDP Calls For State Of Emergency

Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State converged on Abuja, on Thursday, where they stated that calling for declaration of state of emergency in the state, in view of what they described as gravious level of criminality and ethnic cleansing going on there, will not be out of place.

They lamented that over 60, 000 women and children had so far been displaced by the growing violence in the state.

The stakeholders comprised the Nasarawa State chairman of the PDP, Yunana Iliya; current deputy governor of the state, Dameshi Barau Luka; Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Musa Ahmed; state secretary of PDP, Adamu Onyaki; former governor, Akwe Doma; ex-deputy governor, Michael John; secretary of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jubrin and Senator Solomon Ewuga, among others.

They spoke through the state chairman of the PDP, Yunana Iliya.

Iliya lamented that the security situation in the state had worsened in recent weeks, following the alleged importation of large number of mercenaries that had embarked on widespread destruction of villages, towns and communities across Nasarawa South and North senatorial zones.

He raised the alarm that the mercenaries, in their thousands, had destroyed more than 25 towns and villages in the last two months, burning and destroying houses and shooting at people.

According to him, women, children, the aged and even farmlands had been destroyed, leading to widespread displacement of tens of thousands of people who had suddenly become refugees in different parts of the state.

The state PDP chairman noted that the attacks, which were highly professional and military in nature, were carried out with impunity as the mercenaries had absolute superiority in weaponry and freedom of movement and were supplied with vehicles to aid their attacks.

He insisted that the state is currently threatened with near collapse of public order while anarchy is increasingly becoming the order of the day.

He said, “What is going on is not an ethnic war between the Eggon and Fulani/Alago as widely claimed by the state government. On the contrary, the violent destruction of lives and properties is being carried out by imported mercenaries who are given specific instructions to wipe out communities, towns and settlements in a clear programme of political ethnic cleansing to achieve a specific political objective

“Already, tens of thousands of people have been displaced ahead of the forthcoming distribution of the permanent voters cards which means they will not be able to vote in the next election. The objective is not only to deny them the vote but to make sure that the ethnic and populated pattern of the state is permanently dislocated and altered to achieve long-term political goals

“Presently, the influx of victims into Lafia, Nasarawa Eggon, Akwanga and other urban areas is threatening the general security of the state capital. We understand that the insurgents will soon be attacking other areas like Keffin Wambai, Barkin Abdullahi, Nasarawa Eggon, Doma and other settlements to drive them away before the 2015 elections

“We urge the federal government to therefore act quickly to stop the gradual spread of terrorism in Nasarawa State which will affect the security of the states in the entire north central and the federal capital territory in due course

“There is no doubt that those who are carrying out the widespread destruction are professional terrorists brought into Nasarawa State. The security agencies must arrest sponsors of these attacks and must deploy troops to destroy the terrorists’ camps located in parts of the state.”


Source: NigeriaTribune

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