*Demands Justice for victims
By Gift Chapi Odekina
A member of the House of representatives, representing Jos South/ East Federal Constituency of Plateau State Reply. Dachung Musa Bagos has faulted the peace agreements entered into and signed by the Plataeu State government with some persons in the recent killings and reprisal attacks on people of the state by unknown gunmen.
The Peoples’ Demicratic Party PDP lawmaker who briefied journalists on Tuesaday at the National Assembly on the sensless and unwaranted killings in Plateau by undientified assailants on recent times also demanded justice for the victims if these sensless attacks.
The first term federal lawmaker said that insecurity had become a big national challenge as every constituency or community in the country had at one time or another been hit by these unrrpentant assailants leaving so many citizens devastated.
He lamented that the pepetrators of these killungs in his home state and federal constuency are tagged as unknown gunmen whereas a group of persons have repeatedly been signing agreements with the government on the need to cease these attacks on citizens.
He said: “what is worrisome is that the unknown people are being called upon to sign these peace deals. As long as the real pepetrators are not being brought to book, there ‘ll always be unknown gunmen”.
“We ‘ve lost so many lives. It is unfortunate. We call for justice and we expect those who sign these peace pacts to provide those begind these attacks”.
The opposition lawmaker while calling for justice for the slain victims of these orgy of violence also lamented that there is lack of political will to arrest and try in the nation’s law courts,the pepatrators of these wantom killings in Plateau State.
He also said that there is an urgent need for an anti land grabbing law in the state to stem the spate of these dastardly acts and submited that the grand plot by these attckers is simply genocide.
It would be recalled that last Wednesday September 8, 2021, eight persons who allegeldy kidnapped and later mudered Pa Defwan Dariye a 93 years old father of the former governor of the state Joshua Dariye were paraded by Police authorities at the Force Headquters Abuja as one of these unresolved killings in the state.
