Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has reacted over today’s killings in Plateau State and that of Friday and Saturday in which over 30 persons were killed.
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has reacted over today’s killings in Plateau State and that of Friday and Saturday in which over 30 persons were killed.
ACF's spokesperson Anthony Sani in a statement in Abuja.
“The report of the killing of innocent people in some villages in Barki Ladi of Plateau state, Nigeria, has come to Arewa Consultative Forum with utter shock. Tremendous shock not only because the killing included women and children, but also because they have occurred just after the current reconciliatory meetings between warring factions, as well as after the recent visit by the new National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki to Plateau state in continuation of his search for how best to address the security challenges across the country."
“More depressing has been the following murder of Senator Dantong and the Chief Whip of Plateau state House of Assembly as well as the shooting of a member of the House of Representatives."
“It is, therefore, with a heavy heart that ACF wishes to call on all those who derive pleasure in brutal murder of neighbours as their own ways of addressing grievances to stop such drift to the stone age when communal violence was fashionable. In the twenty first century, such approach is clearly primitive and barbaric, particularly when consideration is paid to the fact that under democracy there is due process of addressing any perceived grievances."
“ACF also calls on governments at all levels and security agencies to prosecute perpetrators of these heinous crimes against humanity as deterrence for future occurrences. And finally, the forum commiserates with families of those killed, and prays to God to provide them with the fortitude to bear the irreparable losses. May their souls rest in perfect peace."
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