An Unknown gunmen yesterday robbed residents of Gidan Aku community on
the city of Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State killing not
less than 50 people with many seriously injured.
According to the reports, the men who robb the area with dangerous
weapons allegedly came in from Nassarawa state and attacked the
residents while they were sleeping. They set the whole place on fire
forcing residents to flee into nearby bushes for safety.
An eyewitness and also a legal pratictioneer in the community, Luka
Agbu said no security officer came to rescue them during the attack.
The attackers were very hostile to us and did not spare even children
or the aged once he said.
The attackers shot at people and burnt houses at the same time without
any intervention by the security forces. We are helpless here and we
plead with the Federal Government to deploy special troops to rescue
us from this unfortunate and deadly attacks. Our people are being
killed by gunmen, we are losing property on a daily basis. What kind
of a country is this? Luka said.
Meanwhile the state Governor, Umar Garba while interacting with
journalist yesterday in his office in Taraba State said he has ordered
50 more policemen to the troubled zone to help the residents.
We have deployed 50 soldiers from Yola to add to the troops on the
ground who were deployed from Serti and Takum and with a reasonable
number of policemen on the ground, we hope the situation would
improve' he said
He also ordered the reopening of the General Hospital in the Local
Government which was before now shut down due to the Dusk to Dawn
curfew imposed in the area. He also announced that the 24hr curfew has
been relaxed and would start by 12noon- 6pm
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