There Is Threat To Attack Taraba In 10 Days –Gov. Ishaku

The Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku has raised alarm over an impending attack from insurgents on the state within the next 10 days.

Ishaku, who made the revelation when he received the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus said he had alerted all security agencies after he received a threat letter from suspected insurgents.

He said: “We are on notice that in 10 days, we shall be attacked. I have alerted all security agencies. We are waiting. A helicopter has dropped arms and ammunitions in the night without its mission established. It is not a time to keep quiet, we are living in fear,” he added.

The governor lamented that his pain as a governor lied in the fact that he had promised to develop the state but the absence of peace had made the development of the state elusive.

He said that for him to act, he needed clearance from the Federal Government which was often slow is coming, a delay which he said accounted for the loss of hundreds of innocent lives.

Governor Ishaku further demanded for an investigation into the killing of over 68 persons by herdsmen and the killing of a member of the State House of Assembly, Hosea Ibi who was kidnapped directly opposite a military barrack.

Responding, Secondus called on the National Assembly to, as a matter of urgency, investigate the allegation of the weapon-laden helicopter which landed in Jibu village on January 20.