The Tsobo ethnic group, one of the two communities involved in the crisis that took lives in the Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa State penultimate Sunday, have alleged a plan to eliminate them and appealed for protection from Governor Ahmadu Fintiri and federal authorities.
After the Tsobo people and their Bachama counterparts clashed nine days ago, about a dozen people were said to have died during or as a result of the clash.
When the Tsobo Community Development Association addressed the media in Yola Monday afternoon, they alleged that three of their youths were killed, allegedly through mishandling of the crisis by the military.
The allegation, voiced by Chairman of the Tsobo Community Development Association, Mr Nathaniel Solomon during a press briefing at the NUJ Press Centre, Jimeta, sounded very much like the earlier allegation of the killing of seven protesting women, made by a Bachama group against the military.
The military had been quick to dismiss that initial allegation but the Tsobo Community, in their Monday interaction with the media, made the stronger claim of a plan by certain powerful elite to eliminate the Tsobo nation.
Reading the appeal of the Tsobo group to the authorities during the briefing, the Tsobo leader Nathaniel Solomon pleaded with Governor Ahmadu Fintiri to “stop the actions of the elite who are fueling hostility”, and to protect the Tsobo people “from what he said is clearly an attempt to wipe us out.”
To the Federal Government, Mr Solomon said, “We request the deployment of security personnel who are neutral and firm enough to prevent powerful individuals from overriding the law.”
He urged security agencies to do their duties with impartiality, and NEMA and the state SEMA to provide food, shelter, medical support and clothing to those displaced by the clash of penultimate Sunday.
Lamurde Crisis: Fresh allegations as Tsobo community seeks protection from Fintiri, FG
