Fulani Herdsmen: Plateau Governor Rejects Cattle Colonies

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News Friday, January 26th, 2018

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, said on Friday the state would not be part of the planned cattle colonies.

The governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dan Manjang, in a statement described as “false, malicious and highly mischievous,” reports in the social media that Mr Lalong had carved out parts of Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Bokkos local government areas of the state for the creation of cattle colonies.

The statement reads:

“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 hereinafter states 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 calls on all good citizens of Plateau to bury such imagination of these elements, who are bent on throwing the state into confusion. Cattle colonies are not in the imagination of Governor Lalong.

“Consequently, the Governor urges 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.”