Victoria Mganwa
Due to the Security challenges in Plateaus State, The Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has announced a 24-hour curfew on the Mangu Local Government Area of the state to take place with immediate effect.
He Made this known in a statement issued on Tuesday by the governor’s Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gyang Bere.
“Governor Mutfwang took the decision after consultations with the relevant security agencies.
“He stated that only persons on essential duties are allowed to move within the local government area until further notice.
“He urged all citizens, especially residents of Mangu Local Government Area, to comply with the directive and assist the security personnel by providing reliable information to restore peace and order in the area.
“He lamented that some people are still determined to create an atmosphere of insecurity in the state, despite the government’s efforts to end the activities of terrorist elements.
“He expressed his sympathy to the families of the victims and the injured and assured them that the government would not relent in ensuring lasting peace in the state.
“He promised that the curfew would be reviewed as soon as the security situation improves.” The statement reads.
Speaking in an Interview with Press men, The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security and Homeland Safety, Brig.-Gen. Gakji Shipi, also censure on the unrest leading to the imposition of the curfew on a misunderstanding between two individuals gin the council area.
He said, “The current situation in Mangu is a result of two people that escalated. The crisis is not political or has anything to do with the farmers-herders crisis. It was just two human beings that had an altercation and by coincidence, one of them happens to be a herder and the other person is a native.
“The native was crossing with his motorcycle and the Fulani was grazing his cattle and crossing the road and that obstructed traffic and there was an altercation between them. When that happened, the Fulani people came in support of their own and the natives also came in support of their own and the thing just got out of hands and that led to the imposition of curfew in Mangu.”
It was learnt that during the unrest, several houses including churches and mosques were burnt down.
