The Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Taraba State, Alhaji Ibrahim Tukur El-Suldi has lamented the slow pace of development in Taraba under Governor Darius Ishaku-led administration as the state celebrates thirty years of its creation.
El-Sudi, who made the remarks during an interaction with journalists in Jalingo, said that while the previous military administrations and the first two civilian administrations did their best to bring about development, the present administration has not only failed to bring about development but has also allowed the legacies of the previous administrations to waste away.
“Today, we are supposed to be celebrating thirty years of creation as a state but we cannot celebrate. The first civilian administrations and the military tried their best in opening up the state because Jalingo was a glorified local government due to a lack of roads. They constructed the Jolly Nyame Stadium, the Airport, the University, Hospitals and other areas across the state.
The present administration has not brought any meaningful development at all,” he said.
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He stressed that the administration has performed abysmally and should wake up from its slumber and redeem its image.
“The revenue from the federation account and other donor agencies is simply unaccounted for. The level of development is simply not commensurate with the resources,” he lamented.
Meanwhile, Mr Ibrahim Irimiya Hamanjulde, the Taraba State Commissioner of Works, while giving an account of the developmental projects of the Ishaku administration disclosed that the state government is undertaking the construction of over Six Hundred kilometres of roads across the state to ease the movement of persons and property.
Taraba State was created on August 27th, 1991 when the then Ibrahim Babangida Military Administration carved it out of the defunct Gongola State.
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