February 13, (THEWILL) – The Executive Chairman of Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau State, Hon Joshua Ubandoma Laven, has said that Governor Simon Lalong received a security alert warning of an impending attack on Yelwa Zengam community in Jos North Local Government Area three days before it occurred.
Addressing journalists in Jos, the local government chair also said security reports on the attacks, including the August 2021 attacks on villages in Irigwe in Bassa Local Government Area, were received during a meeting of the State Security Council.
He said it was unfortunate that the Simon Lalong administration is more reactionary than proactive and had always failed to act to save the lives of the citizens by deploying security and other measures to avert the attacks.
Describing the issue of autonomy for LGAs in Plateau as a farce, Ubandoma noted that Governor Lalong was desperate to obstruct and truncate his tenure as chairman of Langtang North LGA because he had spoken the truth to power and exposed a lot of misdeeds by the state government.
He claimed that he had alerted the world to the influx of bandits into southern Plateau, but was dismissed and chastised as crying wolf for no reason only to learn, four months later, that the Emir of Wase, Alhaji Mohammed Sambo Haruna, lamented that 50 per cent of his domain had been overrun by bandits.
Ubandoma expressed misgivings about the bridge project being embarked upon by the government, noting that it is important for the government to declare a time frame for the project and justice be done to those who are entitled to compensation as a result of the project, which completion he doubted would be feasible by May 29, 2023.
Also speaking on the occasion, a member of the Plateau State House of Assembly representing Langtang North Central State Constituency, Hon Daniel Nanbon Listic, said the current status of the House is that all members have agreed to come together to straighten certain procedures that were breached as it lapsed into acrisis, insisting that the issue of who will be speaker of the House should be considered immaterial for now.
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