The Wurkun Youth Ambassadors World Wide, a pressure group, has condemned fresh violence between the Wurkun and Karimjo people of the Karim-Lamido local government area of Taraba.
In a statement, the group’s spokesperson, Seth Sule, appealed to Governor Agbu Kefas to deploy more security personnel to restore normalcy in the area.
He also called on the governments to collaborate with security agencies to deploy more security personnel to the communities and the council.
“No fewer than 3,000 people have been displaced while properties, farm crops and animals worth millions of naira have been destroyed,” he said.
Mr Sule urged the warring factions to eschew violence and embrace peace to attract development to the community.
The police in Taraba on Sunday confirmed fresh violence between the Wurkun and Karimjo people of the Karim-Lamido.
Police spokesman Usman Abdulahi who confirmed the development said the violence started in the early hours of Saturday, and the number of casualties could not be ascertained.
”In the last few days, there have been pockets of guerilla attacks between Karimjo and the Wurkun people in the area,” he said.
The police officer noted that the command was on top of the situation and said normalcy would soon return to the two communities and the council.
Mr Kefas imposed a 24-hour curfew on Karim Lamido LGA following Saturday’s crisis between Karimjo and Wurkun people, claiming several lives.
In a statement signed by his chief press secretary Yusuf Sanda, the governor directed all security agencies to ensure strict compliance with the order.
“Governor Kefas has declared an immediate 24-hour curfew in Karim town and its environs effective July 2. The curfew follows renewed communal conflicts in some parts of Karim Lamido LGA of the state,” the statement said. “Security agencies have been mandated to ensure strict compliance, and any person or group of persons found violating the order shall be dealt with in accordance with the law.”
The governor urged all ward heads, village heads, traditional rulers, and stakeholders in Karim Lamido LGA to obey the order.
(NAN)
