GO BACK AND SETTLE YOUR INSECURITY ISSUES... Angry Taraba Youths Tell Over 400 IDPs fleeing Zamfara, Refuse Entry Into Taraba State

"If you talk about happenings in the country, they tag you an enemy of the north. But look at what the north is now producing and they are fleeing their areas because of the evil that has been allowed for too long to find footing in the area." Sources.

“I do not blame the youths in Bali. In Nigeria today, if you house them (IDPs), they go and bring more and before you know they are everywhere and that is how the problem begins. We can not afford such problems in Taraba State."

Internally Displaced Persons IDPs numbering over 400, fleeing from villages in the troubled Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria where hundreds of lives have been reportedly wasted with the last few days, have been denied entry into neighbouring Taraba, by angry youths.

Reports from sources disclosed that the IDPs, who were being conveyed in trailers, were told to return back to their respective places by the youths in Taraba  who accused them of being part of the evil taking place in their areas.

According to one of the sources, Aliyu Bali, “the youths in Maihula town in Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State were said to have denied access into the town, two trailers loaded with over 400 people said to be from Zamfara State.”

A resident, who declined to give his name, confirmed that the youths insisted the strangers must leave the town as they would not compromise the peaceful and security network set up in the area.

"The youths directed the displaced persons to return back to their villages, citing insecurity as their reasons for rejecting the IDPs."

According to another resident who simply gave his name as Bali, said the youths probably took the action following the refusal of people in the far north to join others in the country in calling out the president to provide security to nigerians.

“When people are complaining about the insecurity situation in the country and people are rising to defend their areas, some people from the far north think we are bleating because the president is not from our area."

"If you talk about happenings in the country, they tag you an enemy of the north. But look at what the north is now producing and they are fleeing their areas because of the evil that has been allowed for too long to find footing in the area." Bali stated.

“I do not blame the youths in Bali. In Nigeria today, if you house them they go and bring more and before you know they are everywhere and that is how the problem begins. We can not afford such problems in Taraba State. We have enough problems already,” he said