PLATEAU IS NOT FOR CATTLE COLONY - LALONG

The Plateau State Government have come out in clear terms to debunk rumours and hate speech spread across various social media platforms misguiding the people of Plateau on Government's position on the Ranching / cattle Colony debacle that has dominated public discussion of recent in the state.

Governor Simon Bako Lalong is not thinking along the line of the federal Governments cattle colony proposition,obviously Plateau state will adopt the Ranching policy in the days ahead.

The  Special Adviser ,Media and Publicity ,Mr Dan Manjang expresses Governments position.

DIRECTORATE OF PRESS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR, PLATEAU STATE

PRESS RELEASE

The attention of the Executive Governor of Plateau State, Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong has been drawn to the news making the rounds, particularly in the Social Media that “parts of Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Bokkos Local Government Areas have been carved out for the creation of colonies for cattle, in fulfilment of his promises to the Fulani who have pressured him, to either cede those areas or he faces the other side of their viciousness which may cost his aspirations”.

The Governor herein after state unequivocally that this thinking is not only the figment of the imagination of its authors, who want to make political capital out of it, but false, malicious and highly mischievous.

Governor Simon Bako Lalong has and does not contemplate such action and he further call on all good citizens of Plateau to bury such imagination of these elements bent on throwing the State into confusion. Cattle colonies are not in the imagination of Governor Lalong.

Consequently, the Governor urge all peace loving citizens of Plateau State to discountenance such mischievous information but to gravitate towards issues that unite us rather than those that divide us.

In the same vein, the DG ,Peace Building agency,Mr Joseph Lengmang has warned political gladiator's to desist from politicising security issues

"Plateau State Government has not keyed into any cattle Colony, the government are exploring possibilities of embarking on a pilot Ranching to explore the possibility of developing a policy that will lead to the subsequent ban and criminalisation of open grazing"

#Makut Alfred Mashat
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