Tom Garba
A community in Madagali LGA has recruited up to 200 hundreds able Youths to face the dreaded Boko Haram group who launched waves of attack on Kolbachwa village in Madagali in which scores has died.
The lawmaker representing Madagali Hon. Emmanuel Tsamdu said incessant attack has forced the community to train and equip the recruited vigilantes in the area to repel future attacks.
According to Hon. Emmanuel Tsamdu, representing Madagali constituency, under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, who broke the news of the called for more security presence in the area following the attack as he said the area has not known peace since the onset of the rains as many of the Boko Haram insurgents have been taking shelter in the mountains.
He said it was from these hideouts in the surrounding mountains that the insurgents always come out from to unleash attacks on the dwellers who are mostly farmers.
He maintained that many such attacks have occurred in Midigu, Lanssa, Immulsa, Kubula, Sabon Gari and Wagachakawa, within the last five days with scores feared killed by the insurgents.
Worried by the spate of the attacks the lawmaker said, some stakeholders in the area, including him, have recruited over two hundred local hunters as vigilantes to repel further attacks. The aim of vigilantes, he said, since they were more conversant with the terrain are to “go after the dreaded members of the sect who are still dwelling in the mountains and also repel any future attacks in the area”.
Tsamdu said the last attack in Kolbachwa had left community with no choice than to resort to self protection even though he noted that the military command in the state had been briefed of recent development in Madagali.
The lawmaker therefore called on the government to deploy more military personnel to Madagali area of the state as the current size of the military personnel stationed in the area may not be able to contain the onslaught of the sect because of the terrain and the Guerrilla nature of the attacks, he said.
