A Plan one -day official Visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to
Plateau state slated for Thursday 8th of March, 2018 will remain a
landmark and historical in the minds of the Citizens as he Will unveiled
the Peace Roadmap design by the Plateau State Peace Building Agency.
The establishment of the Plateau State Peace Building Agency by
Governor Simon Lalong three years ago is amongst the biggest achievement
of the All Progressive Congress administration in the country as its is
the first state to create the Agency followed by Kaduna State
Government.
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to unveiled the Peace Roadmap
on the 8th March, 2018 during the town Hall meeting where the theme of
the discussion will revolt around the issues of Peace and security.
Director General of the Peace Building Agency Mr Joseph Lengman has
disclose that the Roadmap to Peace to be unveiled by the President is a
document that has a strategic plan of action for the next five years
that was developed through the benchmarking exercise that brought
together a wide ranged of stakeholders, civil societies organizations,
Security expert and agencies including Non governmental organizations
NGO, international donor agencies, international nongovernmental
organizations, the academia and the Media.
He said, “What we did through all this process was to identify the
gaps in the post conflict peace Building process on the Plateau and the
idea was to see actually how to developed and designed a framework for
engaging issues of conflict and ways resolving them toward promoting a
peaceful society in Plateau State”.
According to him the creation of the Plateau State Peace Building
Agency which is first of it kind in the country has also set the pace
for states such as Kaduna state to also established an agency called
Kaduna state Peace Commission.
“The Plateau State Peace Building Agency and the Government has gone
way ahead now to developed a plan of action on how to pro actively
engage issues of conflict and to innovatively transformed them as the
demonstration of its commitment to delivering the promise of Peace and
security to the vast majority of its citizens”.
The establishment of the Peace agency has also underlined the
seriousness with which the Lalong government is taking the issue of
peace toward building confidence among the ethnic nationalities living
on the Plateau and rekindled hope on the possibility of having a
peaceful state built on the foundation of equity and social justice and
brought out the best in these citizens.
It would be recalled that the Commissioner of information and
Communication in the State Hon. Yakubu Dati had on Friday while
briefing Journalists said the President is expected during the visit
commission some of the laudable projects of Governor Simon Lalong in the
State.
He said the President will during the Visit inspect and commission
some completed projects including the Mararaban Jama’a express road, the
lowcost/ Rukuba road network, the secretariat flyover and the Unguwar
Rogo road network amongst others.
“Our President is expected to commission some road projects, like
the Mararaba Jama-British American road, the Kalong Road in Shendam, the
Low-cost Rantya, Tudun Wada Road, the Panyam Fish Farm and other
projects in the state.
Dati added that Governor Lalong in the last three years has done a
lot to develop Plateau state and so far many road projects he inherited
have been completed, more projects are ongoing in almost all the local
government Councils in the state.
The President will also visit the Gbong Gwom of Jos, and President
of the Plateau State Traditional Council of chiefs and Emirs in the
State His Majesty Da Jacob Gyang Buba.
The commissioner disclose that the Lalong-led administration has brought sanity and direction to governance in the state.
By Pam Musa