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National Security & Intelligence
President Jonathan receives committee’s report on Jos crisis, vows to prevent recurrence
Aug 24, 2010, 13:40
| | President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has promised to do all that is necessary to check the recurring violence in Jos.
The President who stated this when he received the final report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Jos crisis chaired by Chief Solomon Lar at the State House, Abuja on Monday, August 23, assured that the Committee’s report would be implemented.
Expressing his deep concern, the President sated “The Jos crisis is very worrisome because it has become cyclic; after a number of years it will come back.”
“I assure you that government is going to look at it clinically. I hope your recommendations are not only going to be a model to resolve the Jos crisis, but will also help to resolve similar crises in other parts of the country. Definitely, government is not going to dump this report,” he declared.
He said that Government would examine the immediate and remote causes of the crises which claimed hundreds of lives and led to the damage of property worth millions of naira adding that the report would also be used to address similar situations as they occurred in other parts of the country.
President Jonathan while commending members of the committee for a job well done, described them as people of integrity and competence, who have painstakingly taken it upon themselves to assist the nation by working under serious conditions.
Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the committee and former governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, disclosed that the committee identified all the various causes of the crises in Jos and other parts of Plateau State and the political, economic, social and religious dimensions of the crisis and recommendations were made to ameliorate their effects on peace and harmony.
He said that the committee carefully examined these issues and amicably came to a consensus on all of them without exception and expressed hope, with prayers that the far reaching recommendations, which are contained in the report, would go a long way to justify the confidence reposed in the committee to assist in finding enduring solution that would restore Jos and Plateau State to their glorious days once again.
The committee which is chaired by Chief Solomon Lar has former Plateau State governor and minister, Fidelis Tapgun, former deputy senate president John Wash Pam, Professor Nenfor Gomwalk, Ambassor Yahaya Kwande, Barrister Smart Irabo, Hon Leo Dilkon and AVM Umaru Abbas, among others, as members.
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