Group Charges Plateau 9th Assembly On Anti-Land Grabbing Bill, Drum Support For Community Policing
By Daniel Dauda, Jos
Arise from the increase tendency of insecurity bedeviling the country, a group under the aegis of Nigerian League of Women Voters (NgLOWV) charged Plateau 9th Assembly to immediately pass into law "the anti- land grabbing bill."
" We want to call on the state House of Assembly to as matter of urgency pass into law the anti-land grabbing bill which prohibits the forceful occupation of landed properties by arm persons.
"Th bill has some section that deal with arm robbery, kidnapping, cultism and violence related matters. This we believe if executed will protect the citizens and secure our ancestral lands which is our heritage."
NgLOWV who bore their mind through its chairperson Lynda Barau Alhamdu, while addressing Journalist at NUJ Secretariat in Jos said they were hundred percent support of Plateau State Government and stakeholders collective resolved on community Policing following the peace and security community dialogue meeting which held on 4th February, 2020.
"NgLOWV observed with keen interest and joy government sincere efforts to strengthen and deepen the peace apparatus in the face of the incessant attacks on our villages/communities and the senseless killings of children and husbands both within and outside the state.
The League in collaboration with other NGOs on the Plateau support in totality all resolutions reached and stand in solidarity with the state in building confidence and finding acceptable ways of incorporating community participation in the present security architectural framework in the state.
" We wish to lend our voice to the laudable initiative of the North Central Governers' for the geo- political zone to establish a community Policing framework to confront insecurity threatening our state and our corporate existence as a country." The group stated.
The group commended Governor Simon Lalong who visited Federal ministry for Humanitarian to make a case for the teeming numbers of internally displaced persons in the state.
"We appreciate this effort and call on the Federal Government to provide relief and succor to the widows, orphans and those dislocated and displaced. We call on the state machineries to please follow up this until a favourable response is secure."
You would recall the League of Women Voters was formed in 1920, and came to the fore in 1996 and later incorporated in 1998 in Nigeria. However, it comes into existence in Plateau State in 2019.
NgLOWV is a voluntary, nonsectarian, not for profit association rather committed towards empowering Women irrespective of race, nationality, colour, or religion for the attainment of sustainable economic, social and political resilience.
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