Jonah Jang, has described the grazing reserves/ranching policy of Governor Simon Lalong as an attempt to sell off the birthright of the people of Plateau State.
According to a statement issued yesterday by the Senator Jang through his aide, Clinton Garuba, he said: “The attention of the Senator representing Plateau North in the National Assembly.” “Senator Jonah Jang has been drawn to remarks made by the Plateau State Governor, Barr. Simon Lalong to the effect that he (Sen. Jang) was responsible for the protests that greeted the APC Government’s policy on grazing reserve, ranching.
“The fact that we have to struggle with a nomenclature for the anti-people policy is in itself a pointer to the fact that the government of the day doesn’t know what to do and is cleaving to anything just to portray itself to be working. “It is unfortunate that Plateau State has found itself with a government that is willing to sacrifice its future in the mould of the biblical Esau who forfeited his birth right for a meal of porridge.
“We have heard the government say, it is keying into to policy for the benefit of the money made available for the implementation of the policy. “One is taken aback that the chief executive officer of a state does not even know what is in the best interest of his state but is only concerned about the financial inducement attached to a policy that has the potential to wreck a deadly blow on his people., Instead of the Lalong administration to concentrate on delivering the goods that he was voted into office for, he is busy expending energy on accusing Jang for his non-performance and ill-preparation for governance.
”One question that comes to mind is whether the Lalong government is blind to the fact that those who have rejected the policy are not a single tribe as the Governor alluded to in his remarks at the Villa.” The statement however took a swipe at the governor for describing his state civil servants as “being hungry people” adding that it “only paints a true picture of a man who accidentally got to power.
“We wish Barr. Lalong and his cohorts on the journey to selling off Plateau State well and urge them to go ahead with their pursuit for personal gain but they should also remember that the clock is ticking and they have limited time to either deliver on the dividends of democracy or be shown the way out in 2019,” Garuba stated.
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