NGF Condemns Killing Of Travellers In Plateau, Says It Is ‘Unacceptable’

• The Forum called on the country’s security organisations to do all it could to fish out all those involved and bring them forward to face the full wrath of the law…

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), has condemned in strong terms the killing of 23 travellers at Rukuba Road, in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State.

The Forum in a statement issued by its Head, Media, and Public Affairs, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in Abuja on Sunday, described the killing of the innocent travellers as barbaric and senseless.

According to the Forum, the killing had all the colorations of several others, in which locals in a particular part of Nigeria had become inhospitable and unwelcoming to other Nigerians living in or passing through their domains.

It regretted the dastardly actions meted on peaceful locals, which resulted in unwarranted needless deaths, stressing that if not checked, it would diminish all Nigerians as a people and pull the country down to the deepest recesses of the absence of civilization.

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It noted also that such actions cause all kinds of reprisal killings and injurious interactions that do nobody any good in any part of the country.

“The NGF views with extreme disgust the horrible and thoughtless loss of precious lives and declare unequivocally that it must stop forthwith,” the statement noted.

The Forum called on the country’s security organisations to do all it could to fish out all those involved and bring them forward to face the full wrath of the law to serve as a deterrent to those who are contemplating similar action.

It noted that no human life deserves to be wasted on any ground either on religious or ethnic grounds, or even on the frivolous altar of mistaken identity.

The NGF said it was time that Nigerians desisted from taking the law into their own hands so that the country could once again become a safe place for all.

It appealed to all aggrieved ethnic nationalities and their militia to stop needless killings.

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