A JOINT PRESS STATEMENT OF THE ATAKAR, BEROM, IRIGWE, MWAGAVWUL AND RON YOUTHS
ASSOCIATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COALITION OF PLATEAU STATE INDIGENOUS
YOUTHS BODIES ON THE ALARMING SPATE OF FULANI OCCUPATION OF HAMLETS,VILLAGES
AND COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS LAND GRABBING IN PLATEAU STATE, HELD AT NIGERIAN
UNION OF JOURNALISTS-NUJ, ON THE 27TH MAY, 2024
In view of the
unsatisfactory and feeble responses so far received from all levels of
Government in Nigeria, the Atakar, Berom, Iriggwe, Mwagavwul and Ron Youths
Associations in conjunction with the Coalition of Plateau Indigenous Youths
Bodies are constraint to draw attention
of the public and, especially, International Community through this Press
Conference on the alarming and unacceptable loss of ancestral lands as
well as the denial of access to farmlands and mining sites currently being
suffered by the customary landowners in the State.
For several
years to date, the Youths Bodies have been crying aloud and lodging complains
to appropriate authorities including the Nigerian Police Force, Department of
State Security, Operation Safe Haven-OPSH, National Human Rights Commission,
the National Assembly and others that there is a serious under current to the
unprecedented and well orchestrated
terror attacks unleashed on our Hamlets, Villages and Communities with the
principal motive of dispossessing us of our God-giving lands and territory. The
agenda and strategy of the Fulani terrorists is evidenced in attacks and
killings on Hamlets, Villages and Communities thereby intimidating and
displacing native inhabitants, leading to the disruption of their livelihoods,
paving way for the occupation of such
lands and denial of access which consequentially produces ungoverned spaces and "NO-GO"
areas for supposedly conquered peoples in this 21st Century!
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AMB. D. S. MWANTIRI ESQ AND MR. PAUL DEKETE
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