 And a second-class chief of the Haji Umar-e-Buba in Yalarov, Pupuli, chiefdom in the Euro-local government area of Taraba State, and 21 of his subjects were kidnapped in the early hours of Tuesday, December 19th. A resident of Pupuli stated that the traditional ruler and others were abducted by kidnappers who lived in the surrounding mountains of the town. Confirming the event, the police spokesman in Taraba, Delay Ousman, said 15 persons were kidnapped, including two police officers, and that a combined security team is presently on a manhunt to arrest the perpetrators and rescue the victims. We are not aware of such attire, but we always respond, we always act to make sure that this thing cannot escalate to the hinterland. So we, the command have now tried to put a very formidable strategy in place towards those people living across this, I mean along this boundary with Nigeria and Cameroon there. We are talking about deploying more oppressions to the area. The command also working seriously to see that more mobile policemen have been deployed from Mopu 67 base in Takum and other accesses. So much has already been injected into the security as far as Taraba State is concerned. You could tell that high definition ammunitions to fight this insurgency, this insecurity in Taraba State are on their way. Some weeks ago the daikon was here and you could tell that a lot of funds were injected into that venture to make sure that the state is well equipped to fight the security.