ALLEGED FULANI OCCUPATION IN PARTS OF PLATEAU STATE: ATAKAR, BEROM, IRIGWE, MWAGAVWUL, AND RON YOUTHS ASSOCIATIONS, OTHERS RAISE ALARM. READ UNEDITED JOINT PRESS STATEMENT
A JOINT PRESS STATEMENT OF THE ATAKAR, BEROM, IRIGWE, MWAGAVWUL AND RON YOUTHS ASSOCIATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COALITION OF PLATEAU STATE INDIGENOUS YOUTHS BODIES ON THE ALARMING SPATE OF FULANI OCCUPATION OF HAMLETS,VILLAGES AND COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS LAND GRABBING IN PLATEAU STATE, HELD AT NIGERIAN UNION OF JOURNALISTS-NUJ, ON THE 27TH MAY, 2024 In view of the unsatisfactory and feeble responses so far received from all levels of Government in Nigeria, the Atakar, Berom, Iriggwe, Mwagavwul and Ron Youths Associations in conjunction with the Coalition of Plateau Indigenous Youths Bodies are constraint to draw attention of the public and, especially, International Community through this Press Conference on the alarming and unacceptable loss of ancestral lands as well as the denial of access to farmlands and mining sites currently being suffered by the customary landowners in the State. For several years to date, the Youths Bodies have been crying aloud and lodgin...