Monday, 13 July 2015

Save Our Soul! Labaran Maku Calls On Presidency To Redeploy Military Personnel To Nasarawa State

Labaran Maku

Mr. Labaran Maku, former Minister of Information and Nasarawa State governorship candidate on the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA platform, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to swiftly redeploy military personnel to the state following high rate of killings and criminality.
Maku who was reacting to high rate of senseless killings in the state by suspected insurgents, made this call in an interview with newsmen at his Apo legislative residence, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, weekend.
The recent problems confronting Nasarawa State was no longer communal but insurgent, noting that Governor Tanko Al-Makura’s government had witnessed the largest number of death-toll in the state, He said.
According to him, this is the reason the All Progressives Congress, APC, could not win in the presidential election.
Maku added that apart from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in the far north, there was no other state currently witnessing endless violence except Nasarawa in the North Central Nigeria.
“The recent dismantling of military personnel from checkpoints is worsening criminal activities in the state.  I,  on behalf of Nasarawa people, beg President  Muhammadu Buhari to urgently redeploy soldiers back to some of the flash-points where they were stationed earlier to curtail the senseless killings of innocent farmers and citizens in Nasarawa State.
“When the military personnel were in charge of all checkpoints,  we had minimal cases not until recently.  The mercenaries are still in the bush and so many farmers cannot go to their farms for fear of attacks,” Maku said.
He also pleaded with the insurgents in the state to have mercy on the people and stop the senseless killings.


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