Fresh security concerns as armed robbery surges in Taraba capital

Despite the continued enforcement of the prohibition connected commercialized motorcycles successful Taraba state, residents of Jalingo, the authorities capital, are raising caller concerns implicit a resurgence of equipped robbery and different convulsive crimes allegedly being carried retired with the usage of motorcycles.

The renewed question of insecurity has heightened fears among residents, peculiarly successful communities on the ATC–Roadblock axis, Nukkai, Nya’ma Salla, and Mallam Jo’da, wherever victims accidental equipped robbers person repeatedly attacked homes nether the screen of darkness, utilizing motorcycles to facilitate their operations and escape.

The improvement comes amid broader information concerns successful Taraba state, wherever residents person continued to grapple with kidnapping, banditry, communal conflicts and different transgression activities successful antithetic parts of the state.

The usage of motorcycles successful Jalingo was prohibited successful 2012 by the medication of the precocious politician Danbaba Suntai pursuing 2 abstracted weaponry explosions successful the authorities superior during the tallness of Boko Haram insurgency.

The attacks, which progressive motorcycles carrying explosive devices, prompted the Taraba State House of Assembly to enact authorities imposing a full prohibition connected motorcycle operations wrong the metropolis.

Although enforcement has varied nether successive administrations, politician Agbu Kefas’ authorities successful January 2024 reaffirmed the ban...