A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dayo Bush-Alebiosu, has called on security agencies in the country to ensure that the perpetrators of the recent killings in Jos, the Plateau State capital, are made to face the full wrath of the law.
Bush-Alebiosu, who represents Kosofe Federal Constituency in Lagos, said it was high time security apparatus of the state rose to the occasionn and bring those who perpetrated the act to face the wrath of the law. Bush-Alebiosu, who was reacting to the recent killings in Dogo-Na-Hawa, Ratsat and Jeji villages in Foron district, Jos South Local Government Area, Plateau State, said the mayhem should be condemned in its entireties.
Bush-Alebiosu noted that unless those behind the dastardly act are nabbed and made to face the law, they won't stop at nothing in continuing with the endless mass killings of innocent souls. He pointed out that the latest killing was is the height of man's inhumanity to man as innocent children and women who even in an extreme war situation are spared, were massacred and maimed under primitive notions.
"We can't go on like this. Nigeria belongs to all of us and the situation where retaliatory attacks and vengeance missions are carried out must be rejected in its totality and the onus rests on our security agents to ensure that such attacks in the future are nipped in the bud through efficient intelligence monitoring and gathering.
"These recurring crises are fallouts of arrest and the parade of alleged suspects who are ultimately set free at the end of the day by the security agencies. The suspects must not only be tried, those who conspired to kill innocent and defenceless children and women must be tried and made to face the consequences of their dastardly actions.
Unless this is done, the Federal Government would be seen as paying lip service to the issue of security of lives of Nigerians whom they swore to protect under the country's constitution," Bush-Alebiosu said. The lawmaker also called on Nigerians to remain peaceful and law abiding, since violence only begets further violence, while also sympathising with those who lost relatives and friends in these attacks.

Despite buck-passing between the Plateau State government and the military over the attack on some villages in Jos South local government in Plateau State, it is obvious the military has been enmeshed in controversy since it took over the maintenance of law and order in Jos and environs.

From the onset, when the federal government asked the military to take over the security of Jos from the police, it was widely believed that the action was taken to satisfy certain sections of the society, which had accused the police of taking sides in the civil unrest in the state.

The power of the state governor, Jonah Jang, a retired Air Commodore, was seen as being eroded by the coming of the military by his supporters but hailed by others who felt he was not doing enough to satisfy all sections of the society.
Whether by omission or by intention, the action and inaction of the military and even the joint task force, which later took over the entire security system, has justified the position of a section of the society that the military was not meant to be an impartial umpire in the imbroglio.

The perception thus made various groups to call on the federal government to remove the military boys from the streets of Jos, so that they do not overstay their welcome.
Few days after the soldiers took over, it was widely reported that a man was shot in front of his house during the curfew hours in Tudun Wada, a Christian-dominated area.
In the same area, many more atrocities involving the clash between military and civilians have been reported. The latest being the open fire to disperse some civilians, who had reportedly arrested some soldiers in a vehicle with cows.
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