Plateau attacks: Identify troublemakers, prosecute them – Tinubu to leaders

Stakeholders and leaders in Plateau have been charged with identifying those behind the recent attacks in the state and prosecuting them accordingly.

The charge was given by President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday when he met the Plateau delegation led by Caleb Mutfwang, governor of the state, at the State House in Abuja.

Also present at the meeting were Vice-President Kashim Shettima, Simon Lalong, senator representing Plateau South, and Nentawe Yilwatda, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Tinubu instructed the Platteau leaders to return and engage in a meeting on how to bring about peace in the troubled state.

“The leaders will go back home and summon the leadership meeting. Pretend that I’m there or pretend that I’m absent because you are still going to give me feedback.

“Thank God all the former governors are alive and here. Call one another. Ignore the governors’ committee or incorporate them. Take that white paper or gazette that, go through it and agree to implement the white paper.

“The legislators, who are here, we are going to work together to establish state police. I believe once we have state police, enforcement of law and others will take care of some of these problems.

“For us to stop creating widows, widowers, orphans, there must be peace. It is very tough to develop when you don’t have peace,” Tinubu stated.