Plateau Peace Practitioners Network (PPPN)CONDEMNS THE KILLINGS IN RUKUBA ROAD, ASKS GOVT TO ACT, AND SUES FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE.
The PPPN has condemned the killings of some travellers along Rukuba road, Plateau state yesterday the 14th August, 2021.
The PPPN believes that all lives are sacred and no man has the right to take another’s life. The Network sympathizes with the family of those that lost their lives and pray for speedy recovery for the injured.
The PPPN equally calls for calm, restrain and for people to be peaceful in all their conducts. These should be time to be circumspect especially with events across the Northern Senatorial District in the last few weeks.
The PPPN calls on government at all levels to rise to her core responsibility of protecting the citizens’ life and properties. The security agencies should be vigilante in ensuring they provide the much needed security, as to ensure hoodlums do not take advantage of the tense situation to molest innocent people and destroy property.
The reoccurring killings, maiming, destruction of property can be linked amongst many factors the need for justice and equity, and the need to address the animosities amongst ethnic and faith without any acts of sentiments.
While the PPPN pleads for restrain by all in the wake of this unfortunate incident. Citizens, and groups should desist from as making inflammatory and hate statements particular on social media. Circulation of such will only aggravate the situation.
The PPPN also calls on Traditional, Religious, and Political leaders across the state to step up in their roles as peace ambassador and preaching calm and restrain amongst their faithfuls.
Government officials and People should also desist from utterances that are capable of deepening hate and violence under the current fragile climate. It is important that all and sundry remember that we are all preachers of peace or destruction, we must choose wisely as we have no other home but Plateau and at large Nigeria. Let’s all tread the path of peace for the good of all.
15th August 2021
Freelance Reporters 