Our communities under siege by bandits – Taraba monarch

The Aku-Uka of Wukari successful Taraba State, Dr Ishaku Adda Ali, has raised concerns implicit the worsening information concern affecting communities linked to the aged Kwararafa Kingdom.

Speaking astatine the 2026 Kwararafa People’s Assembly successful Abuja at the weekend, the monarch said the erstwhile Kwararafa Confederacy had precocious travel nether onslaught by bandits.

He said respective communities crossed Benue, Kogi, Taraba, Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa, Plateau and Niger states had been affected by banditry, farmer-herder clashes, kidnapping and repeated displacement.

According to him, the unit has forced galore radical from their homes and turned thousands into refugees successful their ain country.

He added that farmers could nary longer entree their farms, portion traders were besides struggling to spell to markets due to the fact that of the insecurity.

“There are the children who tin nary longer spell to school. There are elders whose ancestral homes person been reduced to ashes. We bash not travel present to accuse, but to say, we request help.

“And we travel present to accidental that the assistance indispensable beryllium real, it indispensable beryllium sustained, and it indispensable scope the communities that are suffering, not halt astatine the level of communiques and conferences,” helium said.

Dr Ali besides expressed regret that the radical who erstwhile formed the Kwa...