By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
The Middle Belt Progressive Movement ( MBPM) has express utmost dismay and total displeasure on the purported Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with JAIZ Bank on rebuilding of Jos Taminus market.
In communiqué in Kaduna, the MBPM, in its meeting Chaired by the former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Potter L. Dabup (rtd), participants outrightly rejected the MoU in its entirety, saying the contract will not serve the common interest of the state.
While advising Simon Lalong led plateau state Government to withdraw the idea of MoU, the Movement, noted that contracting the Jos main market to Islamic Bank would amount to mortgaging the overall interest of all the ethnic nationalities in plateau state and the future of the youths.
The Movement, in the communique also signed by its publicity secretary I.U Gabriel, also enjoined the Governor to rescind his decision immediately if there’s no sinister motive attached to the MoU to syphon public funds through kickbacks.
Participants also urged the Governor to continue with his “So called ongoing projects in the state”, and carryout the repair of roads from Langtang, Zanko, through other communities to Yelwa.
While urging him to also discontinue with MoU immediately, the MBPM is asking the Governor to continue with his new found job of Muslim -Muslim ticket.
It also urged the Governor to resettle the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in plateau back to their permanent home, restore their farm lands and provides them with financial support necessary for proper settlement.
The meeting, after extensive deliberation, commended the Benue state Governor Dr. Samuel Ortom on the step taken to established Benue State Community Volunteers Guards, to protect its citizens in the face of current severe herdsmen terrorism ravaging the middle belt region and other regions.
The body strongly advise Governor Mr. Simon Lalong to emulate his Benue state counterpart and established a security network in plateau state, pointing out that the basic responsibility of every government is the protection of lives and properties.
Recalled that indigenous people of plateau state had a meeting with the state Governor Mr. Simon Lalong, weekend on the MoU on the contract of Jos main market to JAlZ Bank.
But the stakeholders later refuted the outcome of the meeting as transmitted by the Director of Press and Public Affairs to Governor, Dr. Makut Simon Macham, saying they did not endorse rebuilding of the market.
