File: Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State.
Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, on Thursday urged the Nigerian Army to treat the wave of killings in Plateau and other troubled parts of the country as a threat to Nigeria’s sovereignty rather than a routine peacekeeping assignment.
Mutfwang made the call while receiving the outgoing General Officer Commanding 3 Division, Nigerian Army and Commander of Operation Safe Haven, Major General Folusho Oyinlola, and his successor, Major General Williams Dangana, at the Government House, Jos.
The governor said the security challenges confronting Plateau, the North-East, North-West and North-Central required a more decisive military response.
He said, “My perspective on the security challenges in Nigeria is that our armed forces must see their duty not as a peacekeeping force but as protecting the sovereignty of Nigeria against enemies of the state. If we don’t look at it that way, we will be making a grave mistake.
