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Seeks for more security in rural communities

Pam Moses

Victims of attacks in Plateau State have expressed gratitude to the First Lady of the Nation, Senator Oluremi Tinubu for donating N500 million to aid with their recovery.

Leaders of over 7,000 residents displaced by recent attacks in the Daffo district of Bokkos Local Government Area yesterday described the donation as unprecedented.

“We are very delighted with the efforts of the First Lady,” said Mr. Danlami Asado, the Deputy Chairman of the Daffo Mangai Community Development Association.

“She did something we have never seen before,” said Asado in Daffo during a meeting of community members aimed at ensuring the community’s allocation gets to the right beneficiaries.

“We pray for good health and open doors for more of such interventions,”.

He However called for the deployment of security forces to enable the displaced villagers to return to their homes.

In his words “Our roads are not safe, we can’t access our homes and farms. Just yesterday a young lady was attacked on her way to the town,” he said.

“Even four days ago, two people were killed and three others injured in another attack in this village. We need more security deployments to enable us to return to our homes and cultivate our farms. As I speak to you, thousands of our people have been displaced since 2018 and cannot return to their homes in places like Wereng, Hottom and Mandung. Even to access our farms sometimes we have to be accompanied by securities otherwise you will not return,” he noted.

Recently when a meeting was ongoing at midday in the town, a young schoolgirl walking from a nearby village to the town was brutally attacked and injured on the head.

“He first ordered me to stop and said your own has finished today I must kill you and started to race toward me with a big stick in his hand,” said Miss Uhoman Moses a victim of the Plateau attack

“There was no one there but me and him so I started running as he chased me down the road. When he caught up with me, he hit me on the head and I fell to the ground. He tried to hit me again and I blocked it with my hand and the stick fell far from him. I quickly got up and started screaming and running and then he ran into the bushes,” Miss Moses recalled.

The leader of the local vigilante group, Mafwalal Abafaras appealed to the government to equip and motivate volunteers to complement the conventional securities in safeguarding communities.