Fresh Communal Clash Condemned by Group in Taraba

The Wurkun Youth Ambassadors World Wide, a pressure group leader, has today 3rd July, 2023 condemned a fresh violence that erupted between the Wurkun and Karimjo people of the Karim-Lamido local Government area of Taraba State. 

The group’s spokesperson Mr Seth Sule appealed to Governor Agbu Kefas to deploy more security personnel to restore normalcy in the area in a statement.

He also called on the governments to work with security all the agencies to deploy more security personnel to the communities and the council affected.

“No fewer than 3,000 people have been displaced while properties, farm crops, and animals worth millions of naira have been destroyed,” he said.

Sule charged the two factions to reject violence as the option 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 local Government area of the state as reported by News Agency of Nigeria.

The public relations officer, DSP  Usman Abdulahi who confirmed the development said, the violence started in the early hours of Saturday.