Jos blasts: Mediation Committee wants perpetrators punished.
The Plateau State government and security operatives have been called upon to fish out perpetrators of the Christmas eve bomb blasts in Jos.
The bomb blasts, the first of its kind, killed scores of people and left even more injured.
The Plateau Inter-Faith Mediation Committee, made up of CAN and JNI leaders, in a communiqué after a meeting in Jos on Sunday, said that it was by bringing the culprits to book that government would be able to check the trend.
The communiqué, signed by Plateau CAN Chairman Mwelbish Dafes and JNI Secretary, Alhassan Shuaibu, condemned the unprovoked bombings and the reprisal attacks that followed.
The members called on preachers to focus on virtues of peaceful coexistence among different religious groups to boost the desire for mutual love, tolerance and good neighborliness.
The communiqué also condemned the segregation of settlements in Jos town, and appealed to people of both religions to learn to live together and be each other’s keeper.
The members also condemned secret killings said to be going on in some parts of the city, stressing that the killings were being carried out by criminals in the name of religion.
They also appealed to all residents of Plateau to fully cooperate with security agencies to maintain peace and prevent ``full-blown escalation of violence’’.
They also pledged to work together for peaceful co-existence of all in Plateau.
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