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Seriki Adinoyi in Jos
‘Ngwang Ishi O’Tarok (NIO), a socio-cultural group of Tarok communities in Plateau State, has raised the alarm over alleged plans by terrorists to attack, adding that the terrorists are already camping around their communities.
It has therefore called on government and security agents to protect its people against “merchants of violence and attacks.”
Addressing the press in Jos yesterday, President and Secretary of the group, David Dashe and Nangor Ndam respectively also called on the state government to “urgently address the continuous targeting and profiling of Tarok.
Dashe recalled that between 2002 and 2013, Tarok was isolated as target of countless attacks, conspiracy and molestations by terrorists for unprovoked reasons which claimed the lives of people and property worth millions of naira were destroyed.
Seriki Adinoyi in Jos
The burial arrangement for the late former Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Domkat Bali has stirred serious controversy amongst his kinsmen as Ngwang Ishi OâTarok (NIO), a socio-economic and cultural development organization of Tarok Nation has warned Tarok elders to desist from the plans to bury the General in Abuja against the culture of the land.
In a statement signed by the President and Secretary of the group, Chief David Dashe and Nangor Ndam respectively, the group reminded the Tarok elders that Bali, as at the time of his death was still the Ponzhi Tarok and President Langtang Joint Traditional Council as affirmed by the Court of Appeal Jos division on the 11th November 2020.