Senator I. D. Gyang of Plateau North Senatorial District has noted the rebuttal of the purported installation of one Alhaji Samaila Abdullahi as the Sarkin Kerana, a suburb of Bukuru town in Gyel District of Jos South LGA.

The rebuttal came in a statement issued by the state government affirming the obvious, a non existent Bukuru Emirate Council. The government further affirmed that the said action was the handiwork of mischief makers and crisis merchants.

Senator Gyang also met and conferred with the Plateau State Commissioner of Police who confirmed that the said imposter has been accosted by the Police.

Following this revelations, Senator Gyang observes that rebuttal of the attempted mischief has doused frayed nerves and rising tension across the state thus averting what was clearly a grave threat to peace, distortion of extant customary practices, traditions and established convention.

The Senator explains that while residency rights are constitutional and accrue to all citizens, customary rights are aboriginal and hereditary in nature and are therefore not transferable.

Senator Gyang therefore implores all Nigerian citizens that in exercising their residency rights and choices, they should respect and observe the customary rights, traditional institutions and heritages of their hosts.

The Senator calls on the people of Plateau North to distance themselves from persons whose conduct and actions are capable of constituting a threat to peace and harmonious communal coexistence.

Musa Ibrahim Ashoms.
Special Assistant,
Media & Protocol to
Senator I. D. gyang, Esq.

count | 31

PURPORTED INSTALLATION OF SARKIN KERANA, BUKURU; RESPECT FOR CUSTOMARY RIGHTS MANDATORY. Senator I. D. Gyang.