A former Plateau State governorship candidate on the platform of the Labour Party, LP, Chief Yohana Yilpwan Margif, has accused Governor Caleb Mutfwang of remaining silent as terrorists and bandits continue to invade several communities and take over their lands.
Margif, who is the Waziri Mushere in Bokkos local government area of the state, made the comments in a statement on Sunday, where he alleged that there are plots by Fulani herders to annihilate the Mushere people and take over their lands.
In what he described as a creeping but coordinated plot by agents of terror, Margif said the plan by the Fulani people is to annex large portions of the state, leaving indigenes landless and in despair.
Margif lamented the killings and raids on villages across Plateau, saying they are no longer random but a carefully executed strategy to seize ancestral farmlands.
According to him, what is more worrisome is the silence of the governor.
The community leader revealed that the well-armed Fulani herdsmen are working with precision and deadly intent to capture at least 40 percent of Plateau’s farming lands, exploiting their superior weapons to overwhelm the unarmed and defenceless communities that have been left to their fate by government inaction.
“It breaks my heart that Governor Caleb Mutfwang has yet to fulfil promises made to grieving communities during his visits,” Margif said in the statement, noting that the unkept assurances may have emboldened the attackers.
Continuing, he said: “Today, the herders have declared an open war, and Mushere Chiefdom, my people are now their direct target. This is no time for silence.”
“We must unite and demand urgent action from leaders who appear to have forgotten their sacred duty of protecting lives and property,” he warned, and called on every Plateau citizen to rise from their slumber, shun complacency, and confront the existential threat.
