Taraba seeks end to killings, religious crises
The Taraba State Regime has expressed dissatisfaction with the killings and religious crises in the state, noting that regime was endeavoring everything within its jurisdiction to ascertain placidity.
Police in Jalingo, the state capital, had on Sunday substantiated that unknown gunmen, on Saturday, trailed and killed 13 Fulani herdsmen who were returning from village markets in Garba-Chede and Maihula areas of the state.
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Aaron Artimas, while verbalizing with journalists in Lagos, debunked rumours that the state regime had declared war on the Jukuns ethnic group in the southern part of Taraba.
Among the efforts, he verbalized the regime made were the deployment of security officials to the affected areas, consultations with local dwellers and ascertaining the signing of a placidity pact.
He verbalized, “It is pitiable to verbalize the regime is fighting the Jukuns or southern Taraba. The Jukun tribe has a cordial relationship with regime, the acting governor has visited the region an abundance of times since these crisis has commenced, he had lead all warring parties in the region to sign a tranquility pact at the Aku Uka palace in Wukari.
“People from Jukuns are additionally appointed in the cabinet, those spreading negative information about the regime are the main enemies of the Jukuns, they don’t want developments to come to the region, they optate the Jukun youths to remain unemployed so they could be utilizing them to ferment trouble and destabilize the regime for their selfish political interest.”
He, however, gainsaid claims that Muslim victims in the last Wukari crisis were given preferential treatment.
He integrated, “How do you go to injured people after a crisis and commence to cull Muslims for medical treatment? Does the Muslim victim wear a tag to identify him as a Muslim?. There are Christian medicos and nurses in all hospitals, the medical director of the state specialist hospital is a Christian, the health commissioner in the state is a Christian. Is possible for their fellow Christians to be sidelined under their time exhibiter?”
from PUNCH.
