Plateau Killings: Mobile Police Squadron to be Established in Kanam - Hon Yusuf Gagdi






By Golok Nanmwa, Jos 

Member representing Pankshin Kanke Kanam in the Federal house of representatives Hon  Yusuf Gagdi, on Thursday said he has moved a motion for the setting up of permanent military bases and a Mobile Police Squadron in Kanam, Plateau.

Gagdi further said that his motion in the National Assembly received approval and military bases would be established in strategic areas particularly where Kanam share boundaries with other states.

The lawmaker made this known when he paid a courtesy call on Chairman of Kanam Local Government, Alhaji Dayyabu Garaga.

He described the Sunday night attacks in Garga district as a sad and difficult moment for Kanam people.

The Federal lawmaker told the chairman that he sought for the establishment of Mobile Police Squadron to be situated in the area.

Gagdi who is the House of Reps Committee Chairman on Navy said that prior to the attacks, Kanam used to be safest and most peaceful area in Plateau. 

"We don't know why they attacked us but we are people of faith and we will take it that God is testing our faith.

"My late father use to tell me that if you are faithful man, God will test you through hunger, hardship or through war to know whether your faith is genuine."

"As House Committee on Navy Chairman, I can say that other areas in Nigeria have experience similar attacks but the response giving to Garaga attack is unique.

"The swift deployment of military to affected communities is unique," he stated.

The lawmaker further stated that his motion to fix the road linking Wase through the affected communities by Federal Roads Maintenance Agency  (FERMA) was also approved.

He added that  the fixing of the road would soon commence.

"On my part, I took 100 mattresses to Garga, 50 bags of rice, 50 bags of maize, 100 bundles of zinc an  400 pieces of clothing materials.

"For those who motocycles were burnt, we I took 10 motorcycles to the them as well as N2 million donation to the affected people," he added.

Gagdi commended the Chairman of Kanam and Wase for showing leadership in the difficult moment.

Kanam Local Government Chairman, Dayyabu Garga commended the lawmaker  for abandoning his lesser Hajj to assist the people.

Garga told the lawmaker that they have so far buried 106 people while others were still missing.

The chairman said that many people were severely injured and were receiving treatment in different hospitals across the state.

He said that the attackers were camping Kamabari Forest in neighbouring Taraba State.

"We must flush them out our forest, the Kambari Forest in Taraba is like their village where they moved freely AK47 and other weapons

"They want to turn the forest like Sambisa. If they are not flushed out, we will not be safe," he added we are called on all sons of Kanam to unite and defeat  the common enemy.

He said that the local government on its part is taking charge of the hospital bills of injured.

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