Deputy Senate
Minority Leader, Emmanuel Bwacha, at the weekend raised the alarm over silent
killings going on in Taraba State.
Bwacha who represents Taraba South Senatorial District said
that the silent killings were being perpetrated by dislodged Boko Haram
insurgents who moved from Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
He noted that the alarm became necessary in order to alert
the Federal Government and security agencies about the possible break down of
law and order in the state.
The insurgents, he said, were working to establish a new
base in Taraba State having been dislodged from Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
He said, “Following the successes recorded by the military
in the three North Eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, the insurgents
are beginning to relocate and they are finding themselves, a new haven in
Taraba state.
“It is very clear, by the massive movement of strange people
into the state, across all the local government areas, in fact the highlights
of those areas are there.
“We are hereby calling on security operatives to go and
begin to sniff around and cross check. I am saying this because we have facts
on ground.
“What the insurgents do, because they want to establish a
new base, is that they entered bushes where they see people settle, they kill
them.
“We have recorded numerous cases of killings and silent
killings are still going on. We now have internally Displaced Persons in
Taraba, in their large numbers because those who were displaced from their
villages, relocate to the towns.
“In fact as I speak, this year’s farming season is being
threatened already because the farmers would not be in their farms to cultivate
anything having been chased away by the insurgents.
“Once the farmers go to the farmers, the Boko Haram elements
go to them and kill them.
“To worsen the situation, the insurgents move around like
herdsmen but they are not the original herdsmen we know because the Fulani
herdsmen don’t move about with AK-47 riffle.
“Boko Haram elements were caught, rearing over 300 cows, it
is on record and the Nigerian security agencies are aware of this.
“The situation is becoming more complex, and difficult
because they move around like herdsmen where they don’t carry the Ak-47 riffle
physically, they wrapped them and put them on the cows.
“People will think they are luggage but they are arms.
National Security is being threatened and that is why we have to raise alarm.
Source : The nation
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