Plateau residents demand security, power as Tinubu visits

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As President Bola Tinubu visits Plateau State, residents are demanding concrete commitments to security, stable electricity, and agricultural development. Read More:…

As President Bola Tinubu visits Plateau State on Saturday as part of his presidential campaign, residents across the state say the visit must go beyond ceremony and deliver concrete commitments to security, electricity, agriculture and other sectors of development.

The residents made the demands on Thursday in separate interviews with The PUNCH in Jos, the state capital.

The visit has heightened expectations in Jos and farming communities across the 17 local government areas.

A resident, Bako Michael, who sells yams in the Yan Trailer community in Jos North Local Government Area, described Plateau as a state of beauty battered by pain and promise shadowed by insecurity, but with a people who have refused to break.

“Abundance without security is a harvest left to rot. A farmer who cannot sleep in his village cannot wake up to farm,” said Mr Dachung Pam, a farmer from Riyom.

“A mother who fears the road to the market cannot trade. Our first plea to Mr President is security. Give us safe corridors. Protect our farming communities,” he added.

Another resident, Sarah David, echoed the sentiment, insisting that policy, security, knowledge, and peace must cultivate prosperity.

David, a trader in Jos South Local Government Area, added that peace would restore confidence in the state.

“Let the sound that wakes Plateau be the cock crowing, not the gunshot. When security returns, confidence returns, and when the farmer returns, the nation eats,” she said.

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