Taraba residents ask Kefas to commence stomach infrastructure project
By Terna Chikpa, Jalingo
Residents of Taraba State have called on Governor Agbu Kefas, to immediately commence the stomach infrastructure project to balance his administration’s plans to build a new Taraba of the citizens dreams.
The residents also appealed to the governor to consider former governor Darius Ishaku’s advise that he, Kefas should give much attention to stomach infrastructure project for people to give 100 percent support for his administration.
Our correspondent reports that the immediate past governor of Taraba, Darius Ishaku, had advised governor Agbu Kefas to give much attention to stomach infrastructure for citizens to support his governmet to succeed.
Some residents who spoke to our correspondent commended the governor’s transformational policies like the declaration of free basic education, slashing of tertiary institution’s fees by 50 percent as well as the steps to boost Agriculture in the state. They however called on the governor to be aware that physical hunger is overwhelming in the state and require urgent attention.
Malam Suleiman Yahaya told our correspondent that “for me, I will say governor Kefas has not started working yet because he has not commence the most important project which is the stomach infrastructure project that former governor Darius Ishaku advised him to pay much attention to.
“I am not against physical projects but I want governor Kefas to see the stomach infrastructure as a major project to give much attention to” He appealed.
Two prominent PDP members who pleaded not be mention in the news, appealed to governor Kefas to be serious with the stomach infrastructure project to attract more support for his governmet.
“You know us as prominent PDP members here in Taraba and we know what people are passing through. There is serious hunger and we want governor Kefas to commence stomach infrastructure project.
“Aside serious hunger on ground, we want to advise the governor that any leader that want to succeed, gives generously. Both the former governor Jolly Nyame and Late former governor Danbaba Suntai were generous and are the best performing governors in the history of Taraba state.
“We want governor Kefas to emulate Late Danbaba’s generous life style for even the opposition to support his governmet,” They advised.
Another residents who spoke to Nigerian Tribune include, Mr Titus Agbu, Victoria Abayang and Sadiq Mamud, both expressed fear that there is looming danger of petty crime in the state following the lack of stomach infrastructure and appealed to governor Kefas to commence the project to avert the looming situation.
“Our fear is that, all these hungry idle boys roaming the streets may become major nuisance to us very soon if something is not done urgently. If you go around the town, you will notice that there are too many young people on the streets, and is not a good sign.
“In as much as we need physical projects, we wish to appeal to governor Kefas that we seriously need the stomach infrastructure project which to us is more key.
“We want governor Agbu Kefas to emulate Jolly Nyame and Late Danbaba’s Suntai who are the best performing governors in the history of Taraba who did very well in executing the stomach infrastructure project during there time.
“The fact is, people support government the most when money is flowing and no stingy leader succeed in governance. We want governor Kefas to be generous like Nyame and Danbaba to succeed and be commended like them,” the residents advised.
