Residents of Muri C in Karim Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State say their communities are under sustained attack after two violent incidents on April 7 and April 9, 2026, left people dead, others injured and several households forced to flee.
The account, circulated through a local report republishing residents’ statement, says Ligiri, Andamin and Garau were hit in quick succession, deepening fear in an area already grappling with repeated insecurity.
According to the residents’ account, the first assault happened in Ligiri village in Andamin, where one person was killed, others were wounded and shops and homes were looted.
The second, they said, was even deadlier. In Garau, bandits allegedly ambushed soldiers and local vigilantes returning from patrol, killing a soldier and three vigilantes, while another injured person later died at Bambur General Hospital.
Those claims have not yet been matched by an official casualty bulletin in the sources reviewed, but they reflect the severity of the fears now gripping the area.
The latest alarm lands in a local government area that has been in the security spotlight for months.
Taraba Governor Agbu Kefas declared Karim Lamido a “Special Area of Security Concern” in January 2026, saying the move was meant to stabilise the council after years of recurring violence.
The state has also been pushing a plan to fold vigilantes, hunters and other local outfits into a formal security framework under the Taraba Marshal, alongside investments in security infrastructure such as drone stations.
That policy response, however, appears to be running into a more stubborn reality on the ground.
The residents say the terrain around the Yankari axis and the borders with Bauchi and Plateau states remain porous, giving armed groups room to move, regroup and strike again.
Their message is that soldiers already deployed to the area are trying, but are being stretched beyond safe limits and need immediate reinforcement, better equipment and aerial surveillance.
The fear in Karim Lamido is also consistent with earlier reporting from the same area.
In November 2025, TheCable reported that troops repelled an attack in Karim Lamido after a communal clash, killing four assailants and recovering weapons.
Premium Times had also reported in June 2025 that residents of Munga Dosso in the same local government were crying out over intensified bandit activity.
Taken together, the pattern suggests that Karim Lamido has become one of Taraba’s most persistent flashpoints.
For now, the residents are calling for a bigger federal and state response, not just sympathy. Their demand is for more troops, stronger patrols, better intelligence gathering and a tighter grip on the border communities they believe are being used as launch pads by armed groups.
Whether the authorities can convert Taraba’s existing security declarations into measurable protection on the ground is now the real test.
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