The Chairman of Northern Governors Forum, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state has condemned the increasing wave of armed banditry in the North West region.
The governor in a strongly worded statement issued by his deputy director of Press & Public Affairs, Solomon Gujor, and made available to newsmen yesterday in Jos, expressed shock over the killings of 37 innocent citizens of Sokoto state by armed bandits in Goronyo Local government of the state.
Lalong, who commiserated with his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and the people of his state over this ugly development, said what is happening in the states of Northwest George-political zone as regards insecurity has become a source of concern to the rest of the government and people of the Northern part of the country in general.
He expressed his determination and that of his other Northern counterparts in conjunction with the Federal government to bring to an end the unabated bloodletting.
Lalong however, described the perpetrators of the evil acts in the North as enemies of God and of humanity whose evil desires have beclouded their sense of reasoning.
He then urged people of goodwill to come together to defeat the plots of these few bad elements bent on tarnishing the good image of the North, even as he called on Tambuwal to sustain the security measures put in place to bring to an end the attacks and killings in Sokoto state.