Plateau NBA calls for empowerment of communities with self-defence mechanism

By Ezekiel Dontinna

Four branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Plateau State, have jointly called on the Federal Government to empower vulnerable communities with self defence mechanism to defend themselves.

The Jos Branch Chairman, Leah Dagung Hassan, Esq, who led other Chairmen, made the call yesterday at the press briefing organised by the four branches in Jos, the State capital.

The NBA branches said, “the continued bloodletting in Plateau State, under the guise of communal crises must no longer be treated with indifference or vague promises.

“The slogan should no longer be “Enough is enough”, but it should be
“This is Enough lets Stand up and take Actions”.The Communities be allowed to defend themselves.

“We, therefore, demand that the Federal Government should empower vulnerable Communities with Self defense mechanism and equipments since the Security Personnel we have are not enough to secure our lives”, they emphasised.

While commending steps taken by the State Government, the NBA further called on the Government to take comprehensive and proactive steps to forestall future occurrences of this genocidal attacks on the people of Plateau State.

The association, however, discarded assertion by some individuals describing the attacks as communal clashes as an intentional attack to wipe out helpless citizens in their houses by wicked men who have no regard for human lives and the State Government.

It therefore, warned that the people would not continue to be silent in the face of these barbaric and evil act of killing innocent citizens and taking over their ancestral lands making them strangers in own home.