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| Senator Raises Alarm Over Boko Haram Base in Taraba |
| 2014-05-02 |
| [ALLAFRICA] A Senator from Taraba State, Emmanuel Bwacha, on Wednesday raised a fresh alarm on "a strange helicopter" that "had been dropping strange armed personnel and equipment in the Dakar area of the state". He said the development has heightened fears among the residents. Bwacha spoke during Senate plenary under a Point of Order. He, therefore, urged the Federal Government and the military authorities to move to the area immediately to flush out suspected "turbans before they establish another Sambisa camp in Taraba State". "I want to say that our attention has been drawn to suspicious movements and activities around Dakar in Taraba State and it is believed also that a helicopter is dropping materials and personnel around the place. "We fear that this may be another Sambisa that is in the making in Taraba State. I recall that sometimes in December, our colleague, Senator Alkali Jajare, drew our attention to the fact that what is happening in Yobe and Borno states could spread to other states of the federation not only in the North East. "What has happened in my constituency appears to be a confirmation of what our colleague had drawn our attention to," the Senator told his colleagues. Bwacha recalled that members of the Taraba State House of Assembly have already passed a resolution, "which appears to have been an expression of lack of confidence of the capacity of the state to contain the crisis". He said the state politicians had subsequently called on the Federal Government to take over the security of the state. |
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