Jos: Fresh attack plot uncovered

Posted by admin Plateau, State News, Top Stories Thursday, December 30th, 2010

The Special Task force (STF), Operation Save Haven, said the command has uncovered plans by groups in the state to carry out massive attack on worship places, homes and settlements within Jos, the Plateau State capital. Commander of the STF, Brigadier General Hassan Umoru revealed this to journalists in his office yesterday.
According the commander, “the task force will not fold its arms and watch law abiding citizens being killed and worship places being destroyed by hoodlums for no reason.”

He said, “Let me warn that all miscreants who are bent on causing mayhem will be met with every force available to the command.
“Parents are hereby enjoined to call their children to order, religious and traditional bodies must impress on upon their followers to be law abiding while groups and societies must refrain their members from committing any act capable of endangering the peace.”

Umoru assured citizens of Plateau State that the STF would protect them irrespective of tribe or faith and called on the citizens to be vigilant and report any suspicious persons or activities to the STF or any security agent in the state.” Meanwhile, the Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang and his Deputy, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, are trading blames over the Christmas eve serial bombings in the state. Immediately after the bomb blasts, the governor had blamed his political opponent who he accused of always wanting followers of the two religions at loggerheads to cause distraction for the government.

Infact, a pro-Jang group recently pointed fingers at the deputy governor, mentioning some of her antecedents before the bombing as evidence that she had a hand in it. But addressing journalists on Thursday, Mrs. Tallen blamed the governor for making a hasty conclusion on the Christmas eve bomb blasts saying it was his inability to use the state apparatus to protect lives and property that was responsible for the blasts. “A leadership that is always giving excuses in crises situation that it has no control of security machinery leaves a lot of question marks.

“A state leadership with all the apparatus at its disposal is supposed to adequately protect its people. This inability of the present leadership in the state to use all the human and material resources at its disposal to protect lives and property of her citizenry, but quick to apportion blame to others without full scale investigation shows poor leadership skills,” she said.

She pointed out that all Plateau indigenes and other Nigerians residing in the state had high stake in Plateau noting that with prevailing failure of leadership in the state “we definitely need a change of leadership”.
Tallen noted that Plateau State was a miniature Nigeria, which belonged to both Muslims and Christians, restating that it was a place for all Nigerians irrespective of tribe or religious affiliation.wp_posts