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No to
phased restoration of democracy in Plateau, ex-commissioners
insist
By Uchenna
Awom
National
Assembly Correspondent, Abuja
Suspended Commissioners in
Plateau State on Tuesday rejected any plans to restore democratic
structures in the troubled state in phases, insisting that all democratic
structures should be restored at the same time and the people allowed to
deal with their problems through constitutional means.
The group also described as
provocative, utterances of certain personalities who are threatening to
protest the return of democratic structures and the manner in which they
are being treated by the Administrator, Major General Chris Alli, and
security agents.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, their
spokesman, Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs,
Aminu Zang, cautioned that the rumoured phased return of democratic
structures could be used by anti-democratic elements to disrupt the return
of the Governor, Joshua Dariye, adding that the plan will also provide the
gap that miscreants need to do mischief.
Besides Zang who was flanked
by two other Commissioners, Yakubu Datti, Dan Tenshak and a member of the
House of Representatives from the State, Labar Wuyep, said phased
restoration of democratic structures will create a constitutionally
incongruous situation in which the House of Assembly will work for a week
under an Administrator.
" We plead that all democratic
structures are restored at the same time and our people allowed the
democratic space to deal with their problems through constitutional means
and prove that they have imbibed the divine lessons of the Emergency
Rule", he said.
However, the group said they
are particularly disturbed that instead of reprimanding personalities who
are threatening to instigate a protest if democratic structures are
restored, the Administrator has been treating them as royalties adding
that they are convinced that the Administrator and Security agencies are
aware of the fact that there is popular support for the full restoration
of democratic structures in the State and that it is such threats to that
popular demand that is heightening tension and could eventually threaten
the peace of the state.
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