Taraba council chairman decries rising outlaw attacks

The Executive Chairman of Sardauna Local Government Council of Taraba State, Oliver Wubon, has actually raised an alarm over the boost in bandit attacks in the council.

He lamented that the situation, if not urgently dealt with, might end up cutting off the city government from other parts of the state.

Wubon, who mentioned this throughout an interactive session with media practitioners on Friday in the state, likewise confessed that the increase of fleeing bandits from Zamfara State to some parts of Taraba have aggravated the security difficulties presently bedevilling his council.

As at the time of filing this report, 3 armed outlaw attacks, he said, were recorded by the council in the last three days with a number of individuals abducted.

Determining the roadway between the two communities in Mayo-Salbe and Mai Samari as the significant flashpoint for armed bandit attacks, beaming more security searchlights in the area, he thought, would go a long way in locating the hooligans.

The council boss, who thought that both the state and the city government council can not do it alone, urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of seriousness, featured its federal might to conserve the council from being cut off from other parts of the state and the country at large.

“If this pattern is allowed to continue, it will suggest that anyone from our city government who has organization in Jalingo, our state capital, will need to go through Yaounde in the Cameroon Republic and link a flight to Abuja before evaluating Taraba,” he said.

“Because these flashpoints in Mayo-Salbe and Mai Samari is also the major road along the Sardauna hill linking the city government council to other parts of the state.”

The chairman, who also revealed unhappiness at the activities of the Ambazonian separatists along the Nigeria-Cameroon border, prompted the Nigerian government to put in place more measures that will checkmate their activities.

DAILY POST reports that the council is amongst the five city government councils of the state that share typical boundaries with Cameroon.