Government declares kidnapped Batibo DO dead, separatists mute

BY ATIA TILARIOUS AZOHNWI The Government has declared dead the Divisional Officer for Batibo Subdivision, Marcel Namata Diteng who was abducted by separatist gunmen on February 11, 2018. The whereabouts of the civil administrator has since remained in doubts. On June 20, 2018, the Prime Minister, Head of Government Philemon Yang unveiled a “Government Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Plan in the North West and South West Regions 2018-2019” in which the dead of the Batibo DO is announced. On pages six and seven of the plan, government says “administrative and traditional authorities have been regular targets of the terrorists who, in…