{"id":172758,"date":"2025-08-06T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/community-leader-calls-for-emergency-declaration-in-plateau"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:10:34","slug":"community-leader-calls-for-emergency-declaration-in-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/community-leader-calls-for-emergency-declaration-in-plateau","title":{"rendered":"Community Leader Calls for Emergency Declaration in Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A community leader in Bokkos local government area of Plateau State, Da Yohana Margif, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently declare a State of Emergency in the state to stop the incessant killings and bloodshed by Fulani militia gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Da Margif, the Waziri Mushere in Bokkos LGA, who made the passionate appeal to the president during a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, said the call has become imperative, following repeated violence perpetrated by the Fulani marauders who have continued to lay siege to several communities, killing the natives, sacking them from their homes and taking over their lands.<\/p>\n<p>Margif, a former Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 governorship elections in the state, said with the way the Fulani militias have continued to unleash violence on the people of Bokkos, it will be a matter of time before they will all be exterminated.<\/p>\n<p>While arguing the need for Tinubu to declare a State of Emergency in Plateau, Margif said it is the only way to stop the ongoing bloodbath and land-grabbing by the armed terrorists who have already taken over control of seven villages in Bokkos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe savage killings and destruction of homes continue even as of today, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025,\u201d the Waziri said while addressing the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeven communities have been captured, and many lives have been lost. No one knows what will happen next. The people cannot sleep and are helpless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnocent villagers have been slaughtered, their homes burnt, and their ancestral lands forcefully taken over. Displaced families now roam as refugees in their fatherland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call on President Bola Tinubu to declare a State of Emergency in Plateau State before we are all gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary duty of any government is to protect lives and property. If it fails to do that, then it has no business being in existence,\u201d Margif lamented.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, warned that unless the federal government intervenes immediately, more blood will flow, and entire communities in the state will go into extinction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A community leader in Bokkos local government area of Plateau State, Da Yohana Margif, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently declare a State of Emergency in the state to stop the incessant killings and bloodshed by Fulani militia gangs. 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