STF sues for peace in Plateau

[Punch]

Commander of the Special Task Force in Jos, Maj.-Gen. Henry Ayoola, has admonished the people of Southern Senatorial Zone of Plateau State not to allow religion, ethnicity and tribal sentiments to tear them apart.

Hundreds of people have been killed in the last six months in the raging feud between  Taroh  people and Fulani herdsmen in the zone, which comprises six local government areas -  Shendam, Langtang North, Langtang South, Mikang, Qua'an Pan and Wase.

Ayoola, at a peace parley with stakeholders  in Shendam on Monday,  expressed dismay that the people had  allowed irrelevant issues to take over the bond of brotherhood that had   existed among them for a long time.

He said,  "The Peace parley is as a result of the security challenges in the areas. But religion, ethnicity, tribe and other challenges which are irrelevant have been used deliberately by our detractors to divide us and we must collectively resist it from today."



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[Folami David]

Peace has to reign all the time in this country for it to be a better place. All this crime and wars must change once and for all.