- Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang has drawn a hard line against armed bandits and insurgents, declaring that his administration will never enter into negotiations with terrorists or grant political leverage to perpetrators of violence.
- Reflecting on fiscal reforms during the state’s Democracy Day celebrations, the governor revealed that aggressive restructuring has pushed Plateau’s monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) up from under ₦1 billion to a record ₦4 billion.
- Supported by new presidential approvals for local security recruitment, the administration has invested in technology networks and emergency crisis lines while successfully securing a ₦15 billion facility to wipe out outstanding civil servant salary backlogs.
Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang on Friday, June 12, 2026, issued an uncompromising directive targeting insurgent groups operating across the Middle Belt.
Eko Hot Blog reports that speaking during a high-profile Democracy Day interactive forum held in the state capital of Jos, Mutfwang declared that his administration will completely reject any form of negotiation or amnesty deals with terrorist factions.
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The governor emphasized that anyone attempting to utilize rural violence and coordinated assaults as a tactical leverage to force a negotiation or claim a seat at the table of governance is severely mistaken, maintaining that the state will exclusively engage with citizens through constitutional, lawful, and democratic channels.
The special state event, co-organized by citizen advocacy platforms Verified Conversations and Inside Plateau in partnership with the Plateau State Government, served as the formal launch pad for a new interactive civic engagement framework.
Attended by Deputy Governor Josephine Piyo, civil society leaders, and youth delegates, the forum provided a direct transparency channel for residents to question the executive arm on regional stability.
Governor Mutfwang detailed that the administration responded swiftly to recent security breaches in southern Plateau by convening emergency state security councils, deploying immediate humanitarian relief to internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps, and strengthening tactical collaboration with federal security agencies.
To permanently secure vulnerable farming communities, Mutfwang revealed that following a direct presidential approval, the state has officially commenced a mass recruitment drive to bolster its localized security architecture.
This security expansion is being actively paired with fresh capital investments in surveillance technology, the establishment of decentralized security formations in high-risk zones, and the creation of dedicated federal emergency communication lines for real-time community intelligence reporting.
The governor stressed that safeguarding lives and commercial property remains the foundational pillar of his mandate, noting that sustainable democracy is an absolute mirage without absolute regional safety.
Shifting the focus to economic governance and institutional reforms, Governor Mutfwang presented a detailed scorecard highlighting a dramatic turnaround in the state’s fiscal health.
Strategic structural overhauls within the Plateau Internal Revenue Service (PIRS) have successfully driven the state’s monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) from a meager baseline of less than ₦1 billion up to a robust current average of between ₦3.5 billion and ₦4 billion.
The governor stated that the immediate operational target is to hit ₦10 billion in monthly internal collections, positioning Plateau as a highly viable hub open for international and domestic agro-industrial investments.
Addressing long-standing labor disputes inherited from past administrations, the governor announced that his team successfully secured a ₦15 billion financial facility explicitly earmarked to clear inherited civil service salary backlogs.
Since the activation of the fund, standard monthly wages have been paid promptly to the state’s workforce.
Furthermore, the administration has disbursed over ₦3 billion in outstanding pensions and gratuities to retirees, utilizing a modernized, transparent digital verification process that completely eliminates fraudulent third-party middlemen.
Supporting the governor’s brief, the Commissioner for Information, Joyce Ramnap, affirmed that providing citizens with verifiable data is central to sustaining democratic institutions.
