Ugar Ukandi Odey, Jos
Governor Simon Bako Lalong has said the 24-hour curfew imposed on Jos North local government area of the State will continue to till further notice because those who are bent on perpetrating trouble and drag the state into a religious crisis have not recanted their plans.
Governor Lalong who spoke after an assessment tour of Jos North, said compliance to the curfew order is less than satisfactory, and also maintained that the dusk to dawn curfew slammed on Jos South and Bassa local government areas following the unfortunate incident of last Saturday also remain in place till further notice.
Blaming the new media for circulating offensive and provocative messages and videos that are more alarming than true and factual, Lalong said the State government in conjunction with the agents of state security are tracking the originators of such messages for apprehension and prosecution.
Vowing that the state government will do everything thing positive against plunging the state into another round of religious crises, the governor warned “crises entrepreneurs” to decline from further efforts to cause crises, noting that the office of the Inspector General of Police has already reinforced the security strength in the state with a special detachment led by a deputy inspector general.
Lalong who also used the occasion to visit some of the victims of last Saturday’s road attack by yet to be identified hoodlums who are receiving treatment at Bingham University Teaching Hospital and Plateau Specialist Hospital, commiserated with those who lost their loved ones in the unfortunate attack, and promised to pay the bills of those being treated in the hospitals.
While the Governor was rounding up his visit to victims in the Plateau Specialist Hospital, a dead body of a victim of neighborhood malice and secret killing was brought in from Congo-Russia part of Jos North, with the grieving relatives claiming that that was the second casualty in a space of two hours, indicating that the curfew has its own bloody shortcomings.
