Panic has been stirred up among the locals in Taraba state
following the fall of a strange stone from the key giving the people a
signal that an evil occurrence could be imminent.
Illustrative photo
About 10:45 am on March 12, farmers and hunters in Tse-Agena area
of Mbatyula in Takum local government area of Taraba State heard a loud
sound from the sky and then an object, suspected to be meteorite stone,
landed.
The landing of the white object created panic. Women and children
were asked to vacate the farms immediately while men went to pick the
object. Mr. Shausu Agena, a farmer and an eye witness, said the object
landed on a big tree in an empty farm land.
Agena, while speaking to Sunday Vanguard inside his hut in the
village, said heavy sound accompanied the falling of the object from the
sky.
The clan head of Mbatyula, Zaki Bem Tom, also disclosed that the
object landed with a sound that was heard in several communities. “It
was in the morning. People were in their various farms when the object
landed within our community. It was very shocking because some of us
that witnessed it descending from the sky thought it was the end of the
world,” Ben Tom said.
“It took our brave men to go closer to the object so that we
will know what it was. Initially when the object landed, it was pure
white in color. Human faces were reflecting on the object like mirror.
Then it turned pure black. “We have been living in fear because we don’t
know what will follow”.
The village head said the community reported the incident to the
state government immediately and the Director of Minerals Resources was
sent to Mbatyla.
“Before the official came, we had already removed the stone for
safe-keeping and the person who kept the stone was not around when the
Director visited. Therefore, the Director could not see the stone. “We
are calling on government to commission a study of our area following
the incident because we may be affected one day by nature”.
When contacted, Taraba State Commissioner for the Environment, Mrs.
Rebecca Manasseh, pleaded with the community to release the stone to
the state government so that it could study it.
Rebecca, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard on phone, confirmed that the
state sent its Director of Mineral Resources to the area after the
incident was report to ascertain the nature of the ‘mystery stone’. She
promised that her ministry was ready to investigate the issue as soon as
the stone was released to the state government.
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