HERDSMEN DESTROYED CROPS IN SHO COMMUNITY OF BARKIN LADI LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA 🇳🇬🇳🇬

These are the people(farmers) facilitating and consoling themselves the lawlessness perpetrated by these Fulani herdsmen. So how much is paid for the crops destroyed and the lives wasted?

ATTACKS by heavily armed Fulani herdsmen & other terrorists is rising....... Everywhere in Nigeria. 

This is NOT herder/farmer clashes as crops are purposely destroyed & non-Moslems targets.  With 60% in POVERTY, destruction of farms is meant to drive STARVATION.

Govt is NOT acting.

BREAKING NEWS;

*BREAKING NEWS !!!!!!!!!*

*Are you a Nigerian? Are u tired of being in Nigeria? Are you a Broadcaster, medical doctor, nurse, Lawyer, professional teacher, an engineer, a fashion designer, a software developer or a student athlete? Are you between the ages of 18 and 45? Do you want to travel abroad for work, sports or for studies?*

If yes, you are a *big liar*. Nobody is going anywhere. We are all going to stay in this country and *vote wisely in 2023*.  🤣

Let me go to another group to deliver this message. Pls help me do same.
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CELEBRATION OF BABA JANG ON HIS REAL BIRTHDAY~ EDWARD PWAJOK, SAN, LB, KSGG

CELEBRATION OF BABA JANG ON HIS REAL BIRTHDAY 

Though I know a book is being written on you, which will provide details on your legendary life, I felt duty - bound , as one of your sons to publicly state your real birthday which is today .

You were born exactly 75 years ago on the 15 th of March, 1946. The official date of 13 th March , 1944 was based on the information supplied by your elder brother, Da Pam Jang who took over the responsibility of fathering you after your Dad’s death in 1956.

However, a few years ago precisely in 2015, the then SUBEB Chairman, Late Dr Lyop Mang brought your Primary School Certificate to you. That Certificate has has your Date of birth of 15-03-1946 which was the date given by your Dad who took you to school and got you enrolled. 

In spite of loosing your Dad at that humble age and your humble background , God has so blessed you that today, you are one of the respected statesmen in the Country.

Years after leaving public Office, you are still a crowd - puller to confirm your charisma and popularity .A bold and patriotic leader , your position on public issues is within the public domain as you always speak for the people on critical issues , never shying away by playing safe .

Age has not dimmed your clear vision on national issues. It has not weakened your resolve. It has not diminished your faith . You still have confidence in the younger ones many of whom you mentored including my humble self. 

I can only offer prayers on this day for the Almighty to bless you with good health and longevity. Thank you for all the good things you have done for me . Happy birthday Sir, and age gracefully .

EDWARD G PWAJOK , SAN, LB, KSGG

INSECURITY: NIGERIA 🇳🇬 WITNESSING SIGN OF STATE FAILURE ~EDWARD PWAJOK, SAN, LB

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and former member of the House of Representatives Hon. Edward Pwajok, in this interview speaks on the deteriorating security situation in the country among other issues.

*_Do you think having death penalty for kidnappers would resolve the reoccurring issues of criminality in the country?_*

Let me answer in this way, by starting with some questions to you who is a journalist and to the media in general. For us to properly understand these issues, it is important to pose some of these questions to the relevant authorities. We should ask the government and particularly the security agencies and the police, how many kidnap suspects they have, that is those suspected of being kidnappers? How many have they prosecuted, how many have been convicted? From there, you go to the Ministry of Justice and find out how many suspected kidnappers they are prosecuting in various courts, and how many they have been able to convict. I am starting from that angle because I just read a report that a US government agency found out that over 8600 Nigerians were killed during violent attacks last year alone. Now, how many persons are standing trial on account of those attacks. So, we need to be scientific in our approach; that is why I am saying that the media has a role to play; we need to know whether they have been able to identify the kidnappers, whether they are with the Police, whether they are in prison or they are at large. If we just say let us slam death sentence on kidnappers, how many kidnappers are now standing trial; it may even be that some people are playing to the gallery, because if you don’t have persons that are standing trial, so it is a cosmetic pronouncement; at the end of the day, nobody will be convicted and nobody will be executed. So, to me we have to put the horse before the cart. That is to say, let us strengthen our intelligence gathering mechanism, let us strengthen our crime fighting mechanism. You and I know what is happening in today’s Nigeria; the Minister of defense said everybody should go and defend himself. The implication of that is that government security has failed; if the security has failed and you are now coming with a death sentence for kidnappers, that shows that we are at the mercy of kidnappers; it is only God that can save Nigerians. For me, the number one thing that we ought to be doing is not just strengthening or tightening the punishment, we need to strengthen intelligence gathering in Nigeria; by doing this you will be able to know who the kidnappers are. For example, if you go to beer parlours, brothels and super markets, you will see those who ordinarily have no visible means of income or livelihood but they spend outrageous amounts of money. That should raise some suspicions in the security agencies. They should be able to investigate that this person is spending beyond his income, where is he getting his money from. We have had that kind of information before on account of kidnappers because the kidnappers when they kidnap their victims and collect ransom, they spend the money either in beer parlours, brothels and supermarkets by spending profligately, some of them even talk freely when they get drunk, that will enable us get information. Are we doing that in Nigeria today? In our various communities, may be somebody was barely feeding but suddenly you see him driving expensive cars, nobody in the community even the traditional ruler will not raise eyebrows, do you know whether that person got his money from ransom from kidnapping? I am raising these issues because the government and security agencies ought to take them seriously and it is not just an issue of strengthening the punishment. I told you that over 8600 persons were killed in Nigeria and the punishment for murder is death; has it discouraged people from killing their fellow human beings; it has not and the reason is because there is no prosecution. You are a Journalist, find out, how many people that have been killing Nigerians; they call them either bandits, insurgents, militants or Fulani criminal herders; find out how many of them are being prosecuted. For me, issues of insecurity should be taken seriously and let government do the right thing, that is my take.

*_The Senate recently called for the declaration of state ofemergency on the security sector following the kidnapping of students ofGovernment Science Secondary school in Niger State, is that the way out?_*

That will not work. If you declare state of emergency, it means you have the tools to do things extraordinarily. What is the strength of the Armed Forces? If you declare state of emergency, it means you are going to deploy and strengthen the Armed Forces to certain areas to overwhelm the criminals in that area to restore normalcy. Today, we all know that the Armed Forces and the police are over stretched, their manpower is not enough. The Military are in all the states of the federation to the extent that if there are attacks in some areas, even if you invite the military to go there, they do not even have sufficient personnel, so how effective will the state of emergency be? If you declared state of emergency, let us say there are some forests where some kidnappers reside or criminal herders reside; they will go there in full force and take control. Do we have sufficient number of the military to do that? To me, the Senate should have engaged first with the security agencies to find out what should be done to declare state of emergency. State of emergency means you have to take some extraordinary measures to now go and overwhelm the criminals. But in Nigeria, it can be abused because you now have some security personnel that will now use the state of emergency to deny Nigerians their fundamental human rights; some may even take some people’s properties in the name of state of emergency. They should tell us what they exactly mean by state of emergency. Are you removing somebody from office, that will be illegal, what are you going to do, let Nigerians know pursuant to the state of emergency or what will the National Assembly invest in the security sector to now say we are declaring state of emergency; they are not very clear that is why I am afraid that it can be abused.

I JOINED OTHERS IN SEEKING CLARIFICATION OF THE IDENTITY OF THOSE FARMERS CARRYING AK47. . ARE THEY FROM PLATEAU, OR FROM WHICH STATE?

 Hmmmmm!

We are living in interesting times with many revelations. The other day the security invited Dr Mailafia for interrogation to clarify his interview on the identity of his informants on those causing insecurity in Nigeria. 

Sheikh Gumi went to the forests and bush to meet bandits and kidnappers who bore arms and no one has invited him as if the security are not interested in knowing the identity of the bandits .

The other day Garba Shehu declared that farmers should seek permission before going to their farms . 

The Gov of Bauchi has defended arms bearing by herdsmen .

Our Defence minister has declared those without means of defending themselves as cowards and urged citizens to defend themselves .

Now our Gov is reported as saying farmers also bear AK 47 Guns. 

I join others in seeking clarification of the identity of those farmers. Are they from Plateau , or from which state?

We know AK47 are expensive

and majority of Plateau farmers struggle to purchase fertilizer.

So is it the farmers that can barely afford fertilizer that can purchase those expensive weapons ? Or is it that our Gov who also doubles as the Chairman of northern Governors was referring to farmers from other parts of the north ? We need more details or clarification please. 

EDWARD PWAJOK, SAN, LB, KSGG 

Zawan Community drags Plateau Government to court over alleged illegal sale of land

Community drags Plateau Government to court over alleged illegal sale of land

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Zawan Community of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State has dragged the State government to a High Court sitting in Bukuru over alleged illegal sale of land by the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Town Planning, as well as the Ministry of Agriculture.

Others dragged to Court in the same suit are Shagari Abubakar Ya’U and Haladu Aminu Madaki.

The Land owners (plaintiffs) prayed the court to stop the defendants from illegally selling the Bukuru Cattle Market and the Reclaimed Mining area, among others in their community.

Counsel to the plaintiffs, Edward Pwajok (SAN) had applied for three motions to be granted by the court Presided by Justice S. J. Bakfur.

The three motions include change of counsel from Francis Okafor Esq to E. D Pwajok Esq (SAN), Motion to substitute 17 deceased plaintiffs with their successors and Motion to join Ministry of Lands, Survey and Town Planning, Ministry of Agriculture, Shagari Abubakar Ya’U and Haladu Aminu Madaki in the suit.

The three motions were moved and granted to the Plaintiffs by the judge.

Meantime, Counsel to the plaintiff, Pwajok (SAN) prayed the court to adjourn the matter to another 30 days to enable him amend the writ of summons and statement of claim after the defendants’ counsel failed to appear in court.

The judge, thereby adjourned the matter until 1st and 2nd of February, 2021 for hearing.

THE REAL REASON FOR THE TRAIN TO MARADI

THE REAL REASON FOR THE TRAIN TO MARADI

When I was governor, they brought some Fulani people in trucks to Wase. When the security report got me, I told them to send the people back to wherever they were coming from and there were noises everywhere that Jang did not want people in Plateau. My former colleague in Niger was the one who made the loudest noise over the issue. Surprisingly, when the same people landed in Minna, Niger State, he also put them in trucks and sent them back. Now, it is happening everywhere and has even gone to the southern part of the country. The Yoruba speaking states in the South-West irrespective of party differences have united, established Amotekun security outfit and sending the Fulani and their cows out of their states.

The question is: where are these Fulani people from? We have lived with Fulani people without any problem. My father’s neighbours were Fulani and when I was growing up, out of curiosity, I used to follow their children to tend to cows in the bush and there was no problem. We know the kind of cows they rear. But the kind of cows we see today is different from the ones Nigerian Fulani used to rear; something is wrong somewhere. What is happening is not a secret; people are being brought from Mali, Chad and all over to come and occupy native land. Is it somebody’s agenda to create a territory for some people in Nigeria

Has the Nigerian situation ever made you shed tears?

I think I have shed enough tears when I was governor over the situation of things, in the state and the country at large. Let the others who are now in office shed the tears if they love the people they are governing. I know how many times I shed tears in my bedroom as a governor. Sometimes, women would wake me up with a telephone call about people who had been killed. At a point, I had to ask God if it was what he made me a governor for – to always bury my people who were being killed and had no power to do anything about it. That was why I started crying out for states to be allowed to have their own police.

-Ex-Governor  Jonah Jang 

( Punch Newspaper 27th September  2020)

Now you know why the rail line to Maradi was approved, to fast track the resettlement  of Fulani's and their cows from Niger and elsewhere in Indigenous  land in Nigeria. Expect more