By Taye Obateru
Jos — The General Emmanuel Abisoye Commission of Inquiry set up by the Federal Government to investigate last November 28 crisis in the Plateau State Capital is to commence public sitting soon.
This is just as Governor Jonah Jang declared that the dispute between the state government and the Federal Government over the setting up of the panel had been laid to rest.
The arrival of the Federal Government’s panel, over which the Plateau State Government initially dragged the government at the centre to court, is coming about a week after the Prince Bola Ajibola Commission set up by the state government submitted its report.
Chairman of the Commission, Gen. Abisoye announced during a courtesy call on the governor, yesterday, that the panel would sit at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru.
He said the commission would investigate the use of sophisticated arms and the alleged involvement of mercenaries during the crisis in a bid to find a solution to the problem. He said the sitting of his commission after the Ajibola commission had submitted its report would ensure that there was no competition.
Governor Jang, while welcoming the commission members, said the state government was now comfortable with the panel’s amended terms of reference noting that the people of the state had initial misgivings over the commission’s mandate.
He urged the panel to make use of the reports of previous commissions into past crises in the state recently released by the administration to provide insight into the recurring skirmishes.
He stressed the need to address the problem of insecurity across the country holistically towards finding a solution to it and called for investigations into similar crises in other parts of the country.
Haba people of Plateau, you have nowhere to run except Plateau State. Your rancour and abuses of each other will not help the matter. Some of us leaving abroad are ashamed to be named Plateuanians because of the misdeamour of so called religious, multi cultural and multi ethnic peace loving, temperate Plateau. The mismanagement of a puppet such as the previous government landed us in this problem. Plateau people had been in peace before Dariya but for his mismanagement of information, we are in this quagmire today. When I organised the Plateau Question in 2001 over 1000 Pastors, Mallams, and Sheiks came. That showed how all of Plateau was ready to work things out. but our then Governor was in the romance of staying abroad that he did not even care to attend nor send a delegation to meet with these eager Christians and Muslims. Plateau people, before then you were eager to talk your grievances. However, the mismanagement of Dariya has placed you in this awkward position. So much that you think, you hate one another bitterly. I do not think so; it is the ambers of pains that such mismanagement has placed in you. I urge you, please forgive each other; learn to live together as you used to do before the DARK DAYS OF DARIYA’s DEBACLE. We in the Diaspora look forward to coming back to a peaceful Plateau that we knew. Some of us sacrificed our parents to make Nigeria one when so people who are destroying it now their parents were living in the bush. We need to come together as one, I wish most of you live abroad to see that there is nothing like Home. You would have changed your attitude and embrace peace so that Plateau will move forward. Plateau is above Dariya , above Jang and above anyone that thinks he will manipulate it. As people who believe in the Divine Imperative leave everything to Him who judges all through His principle of justice and fair play. One day He will vindicate the just but those who eat the sweats of other MUST PAY WITH CURSES THROUGH THEIR CHILDREN TO THE FOURTH GENERATION. Rev. Dr Elias Lamle: Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium
How on earth do you expect Governor (Pastor) Jang to deliberate choose to ignor all the SEVERAL ATTROCITIES, financial and otherwise committed by the SELECTED Local Government Chairman of Wase and expect to go untested by God the Almighty. There is no way. The Governor choose to turn deaf ears on the happenings in Wase and indeed other parts of the state because his darling TALATU and their son PAM and direct benefitiaries of the largease in Wase. Over to you Mrs Waziri.
Mary Jition. Is Jang not the type of Governor that the Islamophobic so called indigenes been yearning for decades…a warrior that can take up the Hausa-fulanis in the mst brutal of ways. May be Mary is complaining because he is sacking civil servants in the state now. Jang is at least honest. He doe not hide his hatred and resentment and he is willing to take down the Hausa-fulani Muslims using whatever brutal tactic. At least we know what is in his head unlike his fellow PDP compatrit Musa Yaradua. So Mary bear wit Jang.
the commission should investigeta what is really the problem jos crises, and they should please the investigetation between them and they GOD. PLEASE .B/cos BABA JANG IS THE MUST STUPIT GOVONOR AMONNG THE GOVONORS.