‘For The First Time Taraba State Is So Broke’, Council Chairman Alleges

 

From Northeast Nigeria comes the revelation that Taraba State is bankrupt. Its treasury empty with local government councils unable to meet their obligations such as payment of salaries and execution of projects among others.

The damning revelation was made by the Council Chairman of Sardauna local government area, Dr. David Jedua at the 17^th annual Cultural Festival of the Bang people, held in Bang Fim.

Jedua, who was quoted as saying that “for the first time the state is so broke that even the treasury of the Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs is empty”, stressing that “The bureau for Local Government is bankrupt. That is why the local governments are finding it difficult to pay salaries, talk more execute projects”.

According to the council chairman, some people are in government but they are “sycophants”.

“There are just there leaking the boots of the government; they cannot bring anything to the doorsteps of the people”, he said.

It would be recalled that about two months ago, the ex-Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Amb. Emmanuel Njiwah had alleged that “heavy looting” was going on in Taraba State through the Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.

The bureau holds the joint account through which the local governments get their monthly federal statutory allocations.

Njiwah said: “Go and see the mess going on in the Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. The looting is unquantifiable.

“Take the SURE-P funds, for instance; the money has all gone”.