 All right, welcome back. It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa and we're staying with a plateau state This time around we'll focus on the attack on the Joseph correctional Facility and we have joining us. I'm Dan Manjong good morning to you many things for joining us on plus TV on Breakfast on plus TV Africa Can you hear us sir? Yes, I can hear you. Good morning. Good morning, Nigeria. Good morning. Everybody in the studio All right. Good morning to you, Mr. Manjong and What exactly is the situation as we speak? You know, we had that lots of people You know were attacked, you know in the attack on the Just correctional facility. What do we know as a present? The latest as I speak with you profiling still being done The road was called on off the road leading to the facility yesterday all around was called on off But the road people have gained passage over that road. This is the Correctional Center has been has been surrounded by enforcement of the military by civil defense enforcement of civil defense and every Other security agency on the plateau the inmates are being profiled and So that we'll be able to know exactly whether there are escapees whether there are casualties and the deputy governor is going to be Is visiting the facility at 10 o'clock today? So probably after that visitation We would be able to give you further information About what has happened, but the issue is that the correctional center was on the attack and The inmates have been profiled and the news that I have which is Authentic is that some of the attackers if not all Have been trapped in the in the court in the facility And so after the profiling we would be able to have the first hand information of who and who they were Of course when you find a situation like that It's not a pleasant situation But I can tell you that it is not a situation the situation whereby It is being said at the social in the social media. There are so many conflicting reports But as I talk to you, this is very authentic and this is official All right, Mr. Manjang, let's try to analyze all that has happened, you know an attack on the correctional facility This is not the first time it has happened, you know, you know in Nigeria, you know There are reported cases in the southeast that it has happened in those data but looking at it proactively what you know What what have we failed to see vis-a-vis the security and the operatives and the police and of course The sister agencies what have we failed to see over time one would have thought that with all of these Incidences that have happened across Nigeria that have been a better, you know Strategy to ensure that these you know attacks and these On these correctional facilities don't happen again in Nigeria Yes, is that a question that everybody would be happy about? It's not a situation that Everybody anybody would envisage It is a general situation and an unfortunate situation across the country and even across the world What should happen and it is because of the proactiveness of the security In jobs in plateau state that they were able to rise up to the challenge And the situation does not escalate beyond what it did that some of the inmates that the inmates are doing Still in the facility that some of the people the attackers have been rounded up and they are They have mixed they have mixed up with the inmates in the facility that profile is being done If it were a situation in in other instances The situation would have escalated more than that, but we The correctional center facility in plateau state in jobs is well fortified for people that know it It is well fortified That it has happened. It's rather unfortunate that it is not the negligence of The people mining the facility is not the negligence of security at all That is why they rose up to the challenge and we are where we are right now and Life is going about people are going about their normal activity even like I told you All roads leading to the facility were called off but as I talk to you people are moving freely even On the roads that that pass in front of the police police headquarters there Okay, so let's share your thoughts on you know the thoughts of some people saying that the government. I mean politicians Are really responsible for this attacks, especially the current one right now ninjas Joss I don't share in that kind of Thinking For what reason with politicians who want to do that? This is purely a case like any other attack It's a case of criminal elements. It is a case of people that are benefiting from the sale of arms It's a case of people that are benefiting. There are there are crisis merchants There are crisis merchants and for you to say that it is politicians Everywhere politicians this would have happened a long time ago This is the first time that this is happening in this facility on the plateau and if it were politicians that are fully it Let the people know who the politicians are if they seem to know better than the security if they seem to know better than authority Why are they afraid of knowing who the politicians are? It's a pure case of criminality It's a pure case of people that do not mean well for this country It's a pure case of people that want to pull down The government and so is a pure case of people that are beneficiaries They benefit from crisis and that is their stock in trade Any well-meaning person would not want what benefit would you would you want to to to pull this kind of crisis as a politician so that for the benefit of what I don't buy into that kind of thinking As I buy into the thinking of the fact that it is criminal elements and that is what they Want to do every time any time anything. All right, mr. Manjang What can you tell us as regards the identities of um the attackers from all you said? Some of them or most of them have been arrested from what we hear, you know Across some several reports. It is that uh fully abandoned, uh, you know Prompted these attacking to set their colleagues free. What do we know as regards the identities of those who attacked the facilities? At this but at this time it is too early for any but for us to stereotype Any any person it is too early to stereotype a try to stereotype a religion to stereotype any person Like I told you they are being profiled our confessional statements will be distilled from them One professional statements are distilled from them We will come up with the true position of who their identities and their sponsors are But for us to begin to stereotype It is mere speculation and as a government we would not do that We have not done that in the past and we will not do that even at this point in time The most important thing is that government is saddened by the by the situation by the happenings And it calls On all and sundry. I keep saying that when people begin to Point accusing fingers on government security is a matter of all of all of us I know government has a responsibility But to begin to stereotype a people to stereotype religion. I do not subscribe to that So invariably now you're telling us that um the over time, um this people Who attack the facility would be named or are you saying that um You uh, they are going to be protected and their names are not going to be published. What exactly is the true picture? No, they are going to be named. They have been named in the past They have been named in the past. They have been paraded in the past What this will not be any different because they they have to be punished to some of the better and to others They will be paraded. They will be named call me for my words if they are not All be responsible if they are not they will be They have been they have been paraded in the past named and their process named in the past They have been taken to uh to face the the the law. They have been taken to court Some convicted Even though they are you will find gaps here and there but as far as leaving them They will be named Give us time uh in the short while we would available You with information about who they are told you that authority the the deputy governor Is going there this morning to assess the situation himself while we he does that While we do that we being proactive they want to be doing that They please the correctional facility officials are there the the the police the police are there The commissioner police was there throughout yesterday They are they are profiling we cannot Begin to name people on this poll of the moment. All right. The right thing has to be done. The right thing has to be done And it will be done. Mr. Manjang, you know My question right now will be on the people it is um the responsibility of the government to ensure that lives and properties Of residents, uh, you know are being protected, you know so if our correctional facility is um You know that openly attacked us. So how secure is the people or are the people of um, uh, Plateau state and then again, you mentioned that One of the reasons why this would have happened Is because of our people benefiting from the sale of arms What have you done in that regard to ensure that um proliferation of light weapons don't just you know grow in uh plateau state Yes, uh as a matter of fact, we have tried as much as possible to even grant amnesty For people that have arms We have done that in the past and we have recovered a lot of arms from the hands of people Uh, what government is doing? Government has been doing quite a lot within the ambits of its Its resources and I cannot show you even we're not because of the proactive measures that this government has taken Uh, we the situation would have been escalated worse more than this far far long time ago But uh with the institutional framework the institutions were put in place With the proactive nature that we are put in place when we came on board. It was so chaotic all around When I people don't want us to refer to the past But we have to refer we have to have the background There was a time you know because of the proactive nature of the rescue administration and the plateau that we We stayed on the plateau for six years Six years or six and a half years without having any issue like this And so we continue to dialogue We continue to strengthen our own operation rainbow assemblers of state police. We continue to to to uh To provide gadgets vehicles for Other security apparatus will continue to form security on the plateau and that is why the situation Remains where it is. We try as much as possible. If you if you if you notice we have in the past One month we have not had an incident Except for the incidents of the two the two past two days. And so uh, if government has not been proactive The situation there would have been no plateau today. I want to assure you looking at the magnitude of What uh, people want to do there would have been no plateau today But we we can't go that we are where we are and we will continue to do more We will continue that is what we are saying that the forms that are supposed to be deployed for infrastructure for agriculture for other sectors that mean Make meaning to the people will be diverted to secure for security Where we have this we will have a lot of dividends of democracy Where we do not have peace that will be our project And if you see on the three-point public peace policy of the state Peace security and good governance is on the front burner And that is what we have paid attention to and we will continue to pay attention to and I can tell you Plateau state is more secure than many other states We we found at the governor founds at the situation that we find ourselves right now that we are Working as previously to make sure that we improve the situation and that is why we call on community policing We are in favor of community policing So that they can also be for what we have as a state and the security apparatus on the in the state Have been very very helpful have been very very cooperative and They have they rose up to even this challenge swiftly And that is why the place has been caught on off and surrounded and the inmates are there Possibly the attackers will buy by the time the profile Will be known to the public who the attackers are who the sponsors are Okay, so um, I just like to take you on on the fact that you say that, you know The state is very peaceful and there are no concerns. I mean, we're just got off the conversation on the phone With members of the reggae community the full and the attacks that's ongoing and from The conversation from both parties there seem to be a lot of killings in this community killings and killings from both ends So how do you explain? You know the security situation and saying that Joss is actually a plenty status the safest Yes, uh, if you say that, um, I can tell you that in one or two months they were about 35 There were there were 35 engagements calling the reggae and the full and it together And if this has persisted then we need to go out to the going board We need to talk to ourselves The reggae needs to talk to themselves the full and we need to talk to themselves There was a time they live together Why are they not living together today? There was a time that they you know and full and we were we had that that was going on the throat of one another Today they live peacefully Why do they live peacefully today? It's all the all the boys down upon all of us in all boys down upon the 53 ethnic nationalities on the plateau If we choose to live together in peace we live together in peace We chose to live together in peace in the past six and a half years and we live in peace We chose to live together in peace in the past three weeks four weeks And we live in peace if it all depends on us governor's responsibility like I say and I agree And that is why we are We have security and good governors on the full burner of Over folk home as a as a as a government and so the people also need to reciprocate government action By talking to themselves by eschewing their prejudices of tribe of religion of politics of whatever And talk to themselves and agree it happened in Rwanda It has happened in many places and the people talk to themselves and agree to live together That is the way it is how it has to go otherwise we will be sounding like broken But but it would be governments. I mean you would be government's responsibility to ensure that that happens And that's why you have a government, you know instituted anywhere in the world So we don't have anarchy and we don't have lawlessness We are doing that That is what I'm telling you that if it were not because of the Measures that All right All right. Thank you, mr. That's as much as we can take on this particular this because we are out of time Dan manjong is the commissioner for information and platu state and together we happen discussing the attack on just correctional center and of course a wartime the government is doing concerning the killing between Fuller knee hurts men and the attack on The irrigway community many things are once again, mr. Manjong for your comments and your inputs on the show It's my pleasure All right, that's the size of the show must say very big. 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