FORMER Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has commended the pace of development in Plateau State since the inception of the administration of Jonah Jang. He gave the commendation while addressing participants at the Redemption II Mid-term Retreat for Top Government Officials held in Jos.

Abubakar, who was in Jos at the weekend, paid a courtesy call on Jang at the venue of the retreat where he examined the democratic experience so far. He said he is happy that democracy has finally come to stay in the country.

“My belief is that the security challenges concern all of us and we must do everything possible to ensure peace. When there is insecurity, there won’t be development.”

“I want to commend Jang and the people of Plateau State for the peace that has returned to the state I have not been on Plateau for quite some years.”

Meanwhile, Jang said peace could only be guaranteed when sponsors the unending ethno-religious crises in the northern are indentified and made to face the wrath of the law

The governor stated this yesterday when the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution on the Security Challenges in Northern Nigeria paid him a courtesy call in Jos.

Chairman of the committee and Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu-Turaki (SAN), who led the visit, said the team would engage in constructive dialogue with members of the Boko Haram sect with a view to ending the perennial crises in the north.