Lack Of Trust Among Us, Is The Major Key To Ethnic Crisis In Taraba – Gov Kefas
By Sanee Yarima, Jalingo
Taraba State Governor, Dr Agbu Kefas, says the welfare and security of the lives and properties of citizens remain the priority of his administration.
The governor announced this plan, when he invited the Tiv community to celebrate Christmas in his hometown, Wukari LGA of the state.While calling on them to trust his government, Kefas reaffirmed his pledge of all-inclusive governance.
Governor Agbu Kefas also described the lack of trust, as a major key to causing crisis between ethnic groups, hence the need for a change of mindsets to restore mutual trust and embrace peace.
Describing his administration as a responsible government, Dr Agbu Kefas also revealed that he will not use power, which he described as temporary to oppress anybody.
Commenting on the state government’s plans to relocate some communities and establish a Military Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the Wukari LGA of the state, Governor Agbu Kefas said there is no going back.
According to him, all lands belong to the government, hence, the need to follow the due process of acquiring them, reemphasising that no one is above the law in the state.
“Even my own house here, I don’t have a CFO. It’s now that I asked them to process the document for me. So, whatever I am doing, I am doing it for the progress of all of us,” the governor revealed.
He observed that Wukari is too congested and directed the Executive Council Chairman in the area to ensure its expansion.The governor promised a massive allocation of land to the people of Taraba, aimed at expanding the state as a whole.
Additionally, the governor revealed that he had requested the establishment of a Special Force along the Nigerian Border with the Republic of Cameroon in Taraba State for enhanced security.
Kefas further noted that it does not make sense for him to be joking with his Tiv friends like Governor Alia and others in Makurdi and come back to Taraba and be maltreating their tribal people.”Nobody will come to me and talk about a Tiv person or any human being.
I have my relationships with people, let me see it myself. Position will not change my kind of person;” Dr Kefas emphasised.
On the calls for his intervention on the alleged killings of Tiv people by the suspected herdsmen in some parts of southern Taraba, the governor requested their cooperation to enable the government to find a lasting solution.
