Taraba community raises alarm over alleged planned attack by suspected herdsmen militia

The Ugondo Mdema Development Association (UMDA) has raised the alarm implicit an alleged planned onslaught connected Tor-Damisa assemblage successful Donga Local Government Area of Taraba State by suspected Fulani militia.

Addressing journalists successful Jalingo on Sunday, the association’s chairman, Joel Iorember, said residents were surviving successful fearfulness pursuing quality suggesting an imminent onslaught connected the community.

According to him, the improvement has triggered panic, forcing thousands of residents to fly to neighbouring communities for safety.

Iorember alleged that Tor-Damisa had successful caller months suffered repeated attacks connected farmlands by suspected Fulani herders, resulting successful deaths and injuries, with immoderate victims inactive receiving aesculapian treatment.

He besides accused the suspected herders of displacing internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had returned to the assemblage and destroying farmlands, thereby worsening the humanitarian situation.

The UMDA president said the incidents had been reported to information agencies but alleged that the attacks had persisted contempt the reports.

He further recalled that troops of the Nigerian Army stationed successful Abako, on the Taraba-Benue border, precocious acted connected quality to uncover an alleged militia campy astatine Tsav-Nomchongo colony successful Tor-Damisa, wherever arms and ammunition were reportedly recovered.

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