The Plateau State governor, Jonah David Jang, on Wednesday launched the 2013 Armed Forces Remembrance Day and Emblem Week in Jos, the state capital, tasking the nation to rise up to the welfare of the ex-service men and the families of the 'fallen heroes'.

The Governor, who launched the Emblem Appeal Week with the sum of Ten Million Naira (N10,000,000) said that "the painful reality confronting some of our ex-service men and families of our fallen heroes is such that even their entitlements are sometimes not forthcoming, and they are subjected to very dehumanising conditions in the pursuit of their rightful earnings"