By RismadarVoice Reporters – December 8, 2025
Panic has taken hold across parts of Adamawa State, as coordinated assaults by heavily armed Chobo-speaking tribal militias from neighbouring Gombe State and local collaborators have left several Bachama communities in Lamurde Local Government Area in ruins, with dozens feared dead and the entire village reduced to ashes.
The attacks, described by residents as“ the most organized in years” have raised troubling questions about the collapse of a fragile peace deal and the growing boldness of ethnic militias operating across state borders.
Local sources told newsmen that the marauding fighters advanced through the creeks along the Gombe-Adamawa boundary before launching simultaneous strikes on communities from the western axis.
“They have burnt Waduku and Tingno to ashes,” a distraught resident said.
“Our youths mobilized quickly to stop them from pushing into Rigange.”
Another survivor confirmed that although the attackers attempted to march towards Lamurde, the LGA headquarters, that they met fierce resistance and were repelled.
“However, Tingno and Waduku are completely destroyed,” he added grimly.
The violence erupted barely days after Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri brokered what many analysts described as a tenuous peace deal between the embattled Chobo and Bachama communities.
Dr. Jamila Suleiman, Executive Vice Chairperson of the Adamawa State Peace Commission, expressed concerns that the renewed violence could plunge the region into a deeper cycle of revenge attacks.
With tensions spiraling, Governor Fintiri swiftly imposed a 24hour curfew on Lamurde LGA.
Security operatives have since been deployed to the worst-hit areas in an effort to halt further bloodshed.
Police spokesperson SP Suleiman Nguroje, in a statement posted on Facebook – appealed for calm and strict adherence to the curfew.
“The Command advises the public, especially those within Lamurde to stay indoors in preventing further breakdown of law and order.”
He said Commissioner of Police CP Dankombo Morris has deployed additional tactical units to enforce the curfew, bringing stability and normalcy to the area.
“The Command, in collaboration with sister Security Agencies, will not allow miscreants and misguided elements operate unchallenged,” Nguroje warned.
While security forces race to restore control, anxious residents are asking troubling questions such as:
•How did armed militias cross state borders undetected?
•Why did the fragile peace agreement collapse so quickly?
•Are there deeper political or ethnic undercurrents driving the violence?
•Why were early warnings from residents not acted upon, sooner?
As the dust settles on another round of destruction, survivors fear the worst;
that this may only be the beginning of a much larger, dangerous conflict.
For now, the smoldering ruins of Tingno and Waduku stand as a painful reminder of a region on the brink, a peace that may have never truly existed.
