The group, while appealing to the DHQ to immediately rescind its decision on the redeployment, said any contrary view by the latter could give wrong impression that the arrest of some herdsmen in the state was the reason for Atolagbe’s redeployment. It, therefore, insisted that unless the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, reverses Atolagbe’s redeployment, the Plateau people would hold the authorities responsible for any further bloodshed in the state. What is the reason for his sudden redeployment? “Why is the redeployment coming at a time that very critical arrests have been made and useful revelations made indicting prominent people? Why the deployment at a time the opposition and a section are maliciously accusing the Presidency and the North for being behind these herdsmen?”

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2018 05:03 UTC