Plateau Bandits Surrender Weapons To State Government

• Plateau Bandits Surrender Weapons To State Government .

• The state government has employed both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches to address security challenges.

• Security agencies have chased out bandits from the state.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that some bandits who have been terrorising communities in Plateau State have voluntarily surrendered their weapons to the state government.

The Special Adviser to Governor Caleb Mutfwang on Security and Homeland Safety, Brig.Gen. Gakji Shipi, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Jos, the state capital, on Monday.

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Last week, bandits attacked some communities in Mangu and Bokkos Local Government Areas of the state and killed no fewer than 22 persons while properties including houses belonging to the natives were set ablaze.

Shipi, who said the state government had employed both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches in dealing with the situation, added that their efforts to restore permanent peace in the state had started yielding positive results with the bandits who surrendered their weapons.

He said, “We’re all aware of the security challenges that have been bedeviling the state. And I know our attention most times has been within Mangu, Bokkos, Barkin Ladi and such places. And so we tend to lose sight of some other local governments that have other very pressing security challenges. And one of those local governments is Wase Local Government.”

Shipi noted that Wase LG “has been plagued for some time with issues of armed banditry, cross-boundary attacks, and, you know, some very ferocious crimes that have been going on there. And so the government, together with security agencies on the Plateau, have doubled up efforts to bring these challenges to the barest minimum.

“So for quite some time now, a lot of kinetic and non-kinetic operations have been going on in Wase Local Government, and for which today, it has started to yield dividends.”

“So this afternoon, I’m here to briefly bring to your attention the successes that have been recorded in that local government by the efforts of the government and the security agencies that are stationed here on the Plateau. Kinetic operations were being undertaken.

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“And a lot of these bandits have been chased out from within the boundaries of the state. In the process, some were even eliminated in the course of fire exchange between security agencies, the vigilantes who have played a very key role, and our hunters. And we have had some great successes.

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