MONDAY April 7, 2025 |
By thenewsdesk.ng
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, on Sunday, April 6, 2025, condemned the recent attacks on defenceless communities in Plateau State, resulting in the death of 54 persons, including children.
In a statement issued in Kaduna on Sunday, the ACF’s National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Tukur Muhammad-Baba, called on President Bola Tinubu-led government to take immediate action to address the security crisis in the region.
The ACF urged the Federal Government to declare a state of security emergency in vulnerable and banditry-prone communities, intensify efforts in actionable intelligence gathering, processing, and deployment, and fully compensate families for the lives lost and extend relief to those injured.
“We are ineffably saddened by the disheartening and frightening attacks by terror gangs on defenceless communities in Plateau State.
“We call on the FGN to declare a state of security emergency in vulnerable and banditry-prone communities and to initiate effective early-warning and early-response strategies that incorporate the participation of community members,” the ACF stated.
The ACF also emphasised the need for collaboration between the government, security agencies, and citizens to combat insecurity in Nigeria.
The forum called on citizens to provide credible information on the activities of insurgents and criminals to security agencies.
“We reiterate our unalloyed support for the FGN, the Plateau State Government, and all national security agencies in the fight against insecurity in Nigeria. We call on all to up the ante in the fight against threats to the wellbeing of all Nigerian citizens,” the forum added.
