- * Flags- Off Construction Of Five Hundred Housing Units In Taraba State.
By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent)
The North East Development Commission has donated food and Non-food items to Taraba, flag-off 500 housing units, 150 of the housing units will be built in Jalingo the state capital, the balance of 350, according to the leadership of the commission, will be spread among other cities in the State.
The Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the commission, Alhaji Mohammed G.Alkali who performed the foundation laying ceremony yesterday in Jalingo alongside the state governor, Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku, as well as the chairman of the governing board of the Commission, Major General (Rtd) Paul C. Tarfa , said the action has become necessary following the activities of insurgents in the region.
Still, with the foregoing, the Commission as stated by him, has as well resolved to make available to the houses certain social-economic facilities that will make the occupants comfortable.
Facilities enumerated by him to be provided in the aforementioned housing units when eventually completed include reticulated water supply, lightening and commercial spaces amongst others.
Also disturbed by the activities of insurgents, the situation which he noticed led to a massive influx of people into the urban areas with most of them taking shelter at "any available public spaces, homes, abandoned and uncompleted buildings and some Internally Displaced persons (IDP) camps across the States, the structures" the houses, when finally completed, he believed would go a long way in heralding succor to the displaced persons.
Stressing the mandate of the Commission, which according to him was established to address developmental challenges in the region and to restore means of livelihood of the people following the over 12 years of insurgency, the Commission, as made known by him, will not go to bed pending when the ills confronting the region are addressed.
Optimistic that the plights of the IDPs will soon be a thing of the past the Commission as stated by him has as well swung into action and "came up with a plan for the distribution of Food items to address the rapidly deteriorating food insecurity situation in the region. "
Alkali who also observed that the issue of imminent food insecurity in the region had been a matter of discourse for a long time, said the Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, have agreed not to leave any stone in reaching out to the Have-Not spread across the region.
Elated by the Commission's hands of friendship, the state governor Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku reiterated his administration's determination to provide a conducive environment for the Commission to achieve the desired dreams in the state.
Also on their parts, both the senator representing Taraba Central, Yusuf A.Yusuf and Northern zone, Shaibu Lau
vowed to tread extra legitimate paths in ensuring that projects mapped out for the state by the Commission, are completed as at when due.
These, they said would be made possible by facilitating the provision of funding for the Commission. NNL.
