An umbrella Organi-sation for the Berom people of Plateau State has decried the way the vacant stool of the Gbong Gwom Jos is being politicised.

The Beron Educational and Cultural Organisation (BECO), in a statement in Jos signed by the National President, senator Luka Gwom, implored Berom people to desist from debasing the stool through issuance of contradictory statements on the selection of a new paramount ruler.

Gwom debunked rumours making the round that Berom registered organisations like BECO, BYM and opinion leaders had endored one Da Pam's candidature and such other claims as the state government concluding plans to impose the state's Deputy Governor, Chief Michael Botmang, on the people as the next Gbong Gwom Jos.

BECO described the insinuations as " malicious allegations and anthropological fallacy."

Da Gwom stated that the election and installation the Gbong Gwom Jos was not a federal, state or local government affair but a thing of the Berom tribe.

He explained that "an existing Berom traditional and customary law metamorphosed into the founding of the Gbong Gwom Jos stool.

"The government therefore only serve as an umpire or referee ."

The BECO leader observed that most of those currently aspiring for the paramount ruler's stool were doing so for "self interests, political, social and economic sustenance; for good wealth and feeling of great importance on government."

The people, he said, were dying in silence with hunger, starvation, degradation, emironmental pollution, kindliness and of becoming tenants in their own land" while other selfish Berom leaders continue to enrich themselves.

He called for an amendment to Gazette No. 10 of 1969 ( as amended in 1991) because it was "repugnant to natural justice" as he appealed for restrain on the election of the next Gbong Gwom Jos.