The Taraba Independent Peace Committee has raised the alarm over alleged ongoing plans by some groups to cause more chaos in the state as a result of the
Areas which the committee said they had received reports that many more communities are bracing up to resist some of the Chiefdoms and Districts recently created by Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku are Takum, Donga, Bali, and Karim Lamido local government councils.
Signed by its chairman, Professor Talla Ngarka, the Committee, according to the statement, “has also received reports that many more communities are bracing up to resist some of the Chiefdoms and Districts recently created by the Governor, especially in Takum, Donga, Bali, and Karim Lamido Local Areas.”
The chairman said the committee “is generally worried about the latest actions undertaken by the outgoing administration of His Excellency, Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku which have sparked some reactions across the State, thereby, further widening the walls of division and becoming threat to peaceful coexistence of the people of the State.”
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