Plateau security challenges are surmountable – Gov Mutfwang
Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has expressed his administration’s commitment to tackling the current security challenges in the state. Mutfwang said this when students of Senior Course 48 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, visited him on Tuesday in Jos. The governor, who decried the resurgence of attacks on peaceful […] Plateau security challenges are surmountable – Gov Mutfwang
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Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has expressed his administration’s commitment to tackling the current security challenges in the state.
Mutfwang said this when students of Senior Course 48 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, visited him on Tuesday in Jos.
The governor, who decried the resurgence of attacks on peaceful communities, described the security challenges in the state as acts of terrorism.
He added that the killings had denied many residents their means of livelihood, particularly farmers who are usually attacked on their farms.
Mutfwang, who commended the efforts of the military toward tackling the security challenges in the state, called for more drastic steps in that regard.
“We have seen that the challenges of insecurity on the Plateau have a direct correlation with the poverty index in our state.
“It is not just about military warfare, but economic warfare as well; it is intended to keep the people in perpetual poverty at a very rudimentary level.
“Ordinary farmers cannot go to their farms, and it therefore becomes imperative that we must do all we can to secure the lives and properties of our people.
“We must give them the enabling environment to be able to go about productive activities that enhance the prosperity of their own lives and those of their families,” he said.
The governor called on the military to adopt both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches in tackling the security challenges confronting the nation.
He promised to continue supporting the military and other security agencies toward ensuring a peaceful and virile Plateau State.
