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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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