Berom want Murtala’s corpse exhumed for re-burial in Jos ‘he was our son’

The group insisted that on the strength of that revelation, the late General’s body should be exhumed from Kano where it was buried and brought back to Jos for proper burial in Berom traditions. The president of the Association, Davou Toma Jang, who made the allegation, told the panel that the Federal Government was biased […]

The group insisted that on the strength of that revelation, the late General’s body should be exhumed from Kano where it was buried and brought back to Jos for proper burial in Berom traditions. The president of the Association, Davou Toma Jang, who made the allegation, told the panel that the Federal Government was biased in handling the Jos crisis.

Toma Jang told the Panel that the Federal Government through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, supported the Hausa-Fulani Muslims to kill “innocent Berom souls” in their struggle to get the ownership of Jos city in the name of “jihad.” Jang said that was the reason why when the FG delegation visited the state in the aftermath of the crisis, they did not visit the state governor and went straight to their Hausa/Fulani relatives.

He alleged that arms and ammunitions were brought to the Hausa/Fulani communities from Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Lebanon and Libya through NASCO Company situated in Jos, adding that all mercenaries arrested in Plateau State during the crisis were taken to Abuja by security forces and from there they were released by the Federal Government. He advised the Panel to invite the arrested mercenaries to come and testify.

Toma Jang said their community was reluctant to make submissions before the Panel because they were still mourning the 32 young military officers who happened to be their sons killed by the Panel chairman, General Emmanuel Abisoye in 1976. The Berom Parliamentary spokesman also said the Jos crisis had nothing to do with the November 28 local government elections because the electoral body was fully prepared and distributed all materials and elections were conducted peacefully all over the state.