Senator Seeks Stabilisation Fund For Plateau

The Senator representing Plateau North Senatorial district appealed to the federal governmemt to de-emphasise the use of force to quell violence as he said such never achieved a lasting peace.

Senator Pwajok rather recommended the establishment of a Reconciliatory, Reconstruction and Stabilisation Fund which he said has the capability of ending the crisis ravaging various part of the country.

The Senator  opined that instead of deploying huge funds for the maintenance of the forces deployed to the volatile areas, government should consider using the money for reconciliatory and reconstruction efforts, adding that such would yield the expected result rather than the use of force.

He noted that the use of brute force by the military and other security agencies to fight violence in the state had done more harm than good, adding that the crisis had become vicious at the long run “the perpetrators turn victims and victims turn perpetrators”.

His words “do not think the use of brute force to restore peace and order is solving the problem we have in Plateau state and other parts of the country where we have crisis. I think government should rather think of establishing a Reconciliatory, Reconstruction and Stabilisation Fund that will oversee reconciliation among the aggrieved people.

Nneka Amaechi-Nnadi