Security expert Gershon Yamba criticizes Governor Caleb Mutfwang for failing to stop Plateau's rising violence despite N23.69 billion spent on security in six months, calling government statements "rehashed."
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Jos — August 24, 2026
A Plateau State security expert, Gershon Yamba, has accused Governor Caleb Mutfwang of failing to curb the state's escalating wave of attacks and killings, despite security spending running into billions of naira over the past six months.
Speaking at a security symposium organised by the Plateau Security Forum in Jos on Sunday, Yamba cited last Tuesday's attack on Binper community in Mangu LGA, the governor's home council, which killed no fewer than 25 people and destroyed houses and farmland, describing it as a shameful level of carnage to occur under the governor's own base.
According to Yamba, a report found that Plateau State spent N23.69 billion fighting insecurity over the past six months, representing 9.39 percent of the state's total federal allocation.
He argued that the scale of this expenditure makes the continued killing and displacement of residents by armed groups especially difficult to justify.
Yamba also criticised what he called the government's pattern of "rehashed" press statements following each attack, arguing that officials repeatedly promise decisive action without follow-through, only for the same cycle of violence and rhetoric to repeat itself.
The criticism adds a pointed local voice to the broader wave of national pressure on Plateau's security response, coming just days after the Nigerian Army relocated its 3 Division tactical headquarters to Mangu LGA and launched "Operation Hard Nut," and amid separate demands from the Northern Senators Forum and Arewa Consultative Forum for compensation frameworks, surveillance technology, and a possible state of emergency in the state's worst-affected communities.
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