Gunmen Kidnap Plateau House of Assembly Member From Home

Gunmen have reportedly abducted a member of the Plateau State House of Assembly representing Pankshin South Constituency, Hon. Denty Laven.

It was reported that the lawmaker was abducted from his home at Dong area of Jos North LGA.

Earlier in September, SaharaReporters reported that Stanley Kavwam, Deputy Publicity Secretary of Middle Belt Forum, exposed the alarming number of deaths in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria, adding that over 500 people had been killed and buried in the area in the last two years alone.

In an exclusive interview with News Central TV and monitored by SaharaReporters, he said the attacks, blamed on Fulani herdsmen, had also led to the displacement of 164 local communities, which have been taken over and renamed by the terrorists.

Kavwam expressed concern over the poor media coverage of the killings in the middle belt regions.

“As I speak, in my local government – Mangu, we have buried over 500 people in the last two years,” he said.

He lamented that the Nigerian military seems to lose their bearings when it comes to addressing the mass killings in the middle belt, but swiftly deploys security apparatus to crush agitations for Biafra restoration in the South East.

“If it comes to South East where the youths are clamouring for the restoration of Biafra Independence Republic, which is always tagged as ‘insurrection’, you will see Nigerian Army and all other security agencies crushing them, even going to their houses in the midnight to disappear them without any traces,” he said.

Kavwam described the killings in the middle belt as a jihadist agenda, fueled by the indoctrination of young people in the North.

He emphasised that unless the young people are empowered with a right education, there would be no end in sight in the ongoing killings.