It is barbaric, criminal, unacceptable – Dalung laments selective killing of travellers in Plateau

A erstwhile Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has powerfully condemned the caller killings successful parts of Plateau State, informing against a resurgence of taste and spiritual profiling connected highways.

In a connection issued connected Tuesday, Dalung described the sidesplitting of 4 young traders astatine Dorowa Babuje successful Barakin Ladi Local Government Area connected February 23 arsenic barbaric and unacceptable.

He said helium had believed the state had moved beyond what helium termed a “dark epoch of profiling citizens connected highways and slaughtering guiltless travellers.”

According to him, the victims were reportedly connected their mode to Pankshin Monday Market erstwhile they were singled retired and killed.

The incident, helium noted, came hardly a time aft an onslaught connected a edifice successful the aforesaid community, wherever 9 persons were said to person mislaid their lives.

Dalung besides referenced reports of 3 young Fulani herdsmen who allegedly went missing and were aboriginal recovered dead.

He cautioned that specified incidents hazard fueling a unsafe rhythm of reprisals crossed the state.

“It is barbaric, transgression and utterly unacceptable to artifact highways and execution guiltless citizens who cognize thing astir the conflicts fueling these attacks. Collective punishment is not justice; it is savagery. Two wrongs tin ne'er marque a right,” helium stated.

While acknowledging the close of communities to support themselves erstwhile at...