By Muhammad Abdullahi, Abuja
The Governor of Plateau State, Governor Simon Lalong has over the weekend disclosed that the state remains peaceful, and not a war zone, as suggested by some mischievous narrations.
Lalong, who disclosed during the opening ceremony of the FCT Minister’s Press Corps Media Retreat in Jos, noted that his administration was working to rout out all criminal elements, in any guise that have been constituting political and security threat.
The Governor was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Dr. Michael Pam, on the directives of the Commssioner for Information, Mr. Dan Bafter.
Lalong also said that his administration has remained resolute with its mandate of developing the state and delivering dividends of democracy to all citizens, in a peaceful atmosphere.
According to him, the perversed narrations suggesting that Plateau was at war and therefore unsafe, was a cheap blackmail by enemies of peaceful co-existence.
He also added that relevant security agencies have been re-engineered to tackle all the isolated cases of criminal activities and attacks at various remote communities, to safeguard innocent people, while dealing with the criminal elements.
” You are now critically positioned to tell the true story of Plateau State. Out there, the narrative is like Plateau is in a state of war, but you have seen for yourselves that we are a peaceful, hospital and likeable people, who are at all time accommodating”, he said
Also speaking, the Chairman of the FCT Minister’s Press Corps, Ikharo Attah said that observation has shown that the security challenges in Plateau have been largely over- exergerrated”.