Today seems to be a day of sacking disloyal appointees globally. This can be seen as President Donald Trump sacked the US Secretary of States Rex Tillerson who is to be replaced by Mike Pompeo, while President Buhari sacked General Paul Boroh (Rtr), the Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme for the Former Niger Delta militants who was replaced by Prof. Charles Dokubo as the new helmsman.

In the same vain, the Executive Governor of Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, has relieved Mr Simon Angyol, the Management Committee Chairman of Bokkos Local Government Area of his appointment.

Reason for this sack remains sketchy and not reliably confirmed.

Lalong made this known in a communication forwarded to the State’s House of Assembly and was read at Tuesday’s plenary by its Speaker, Mr Peter Azi.

“Following certain unpleasant development in the management of Bokkos local government council, I wish to seek approval for the removal of Mr Simon Angyol as Management Committee Chairman of the Council.

“I also wish to seek your approval to appoint Mr Tamai Simon as the new Management Committee Chairman of the Council,” he stated.

Members of House, in a voice vote, approved the removal of Angyol and the subsequent appointment of Simon.

Angyol was among 16 others, appointed in July 2017​​ to manage the affairs of the 17 local governments areas.

Further confirmation from an indigene of Bokkos LGA, a youth activist and public affairs Commentator Mr. D’yong Mangut, Viewpoint Nigeria got this:

The news trending and credited to the Plateau State Government that the Transition committee chairman of Bokkos LGA who was relieved today of his appointment by the Governor as a result of insecurity in the LGA is false and should be taken with a pinch of salt.

The media should investigate what truly transpired and led to fistcuffs between the relieved Chairman and the member representing Bokkos constituency in the State House of Assembly.

How can the Governor lay the blame on rising insecurity in Bokkos on Hon. Angyol when the sacked chairman has consistently defer to the Governor about the situation on ground and had called on the Governor to increase security presence in the locality, something which the Governor through sheer incompetence refused to do.

The public deserves to know that it wasn’t the chairman who reduced security presence in the locality to provide more security in Jos for President Buhari visit.

The public deserve to know that the Governor was contacted after the night massacre of Wednesday the 7th of March, 2018 but didn’t act until the evening of the next day the thereby giving the criminals ample time to stage another attack in broad daylight which was rebuffed by the youths.

I tasked the media in Plateau State to engage in investigative journalism as we are now in dark times where propaganda has taken over the truth, he concluded.

Viewpoint Nigeria will furnish you with more details of the issue at hand as soon as possible.

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Gov. Lalong Fires Bokkos Transition Committee Chairman Hon Simon Angyol, Names Replacement