The Taraba State command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) has actually denied the rumours making the rounds that 30 of their members were eliminated in an ambush in the State.

It was just recently rumoured that no fewer than 30 VGN members were killed in a clash with bandits in Karal forest of Gassol Local Government Council of Taraba State.

Interrupted by the rumours, the State commandant of the group, Alhaji Bello Arabi, on Thursday came out to expose the rumours, saying “none of our men were killed in the attack.”

Confessing that scores were killed by the outlaws, those eliminated, according to him, were not members of the VGN, however members of the Fulani Vigilante Kautal Kore.

Arabi, who clarified through the Finance and Administration officer of the organization, Dominic Kabanya, stated “to be frank with you, those that were killed are not our members. They are one tribe, one religion.”

The commandant, who said the VGN would continue to work together with all the security attire operating in the State to flush out hooligans, beckoned at well suggesting people and companies not to cease from extending helping hands to the group.

The leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), through its Northeast chairman, Alhaji Umar Mafindi Danburam, had last week admitted that ratings of local Vigilantes were killed in the State by running away bandits from Zamfara State.

The local Vigilantes, as collected by DAILY POST, were on their method to one of the forests to eliminate the hooligans when they ambushed and killed them.

The cops command, which had earlier verified the occurrence, concurred that scores were eliminated however confessed that only 2 Vigilantes lost their lives.

Apart from the management of the MACBAN that has actually raised an alarm of the enormous presence of armed bandits in Taraba forests, the State guv, Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku, it would be recalled had actually also called the attention of security operatives on a continuous strategies by terrorists to develop camps in the State.