Taraba State has been a generous host to thousands of internally displaced persons from the Boko Haram crisis in the northeast zone of the country, governor Darius Ishaku has said.
The governor declared this when the Chairman and members of the North East Development Commission (NEDC) on Friday paid him a courtesy call in Government House Jalingo.
He said hosting the victims had been a burden on the state government, but noted that “we cannot send them away because it is un-African to do so”.
He commended the Federal Government for the efforts being made to ameliorate the sufferings of the victims of the crisis in the zone.
He also thanked President Buhari for the efforts he was making to develop the Mambilla Hydro Electricity Power. He stressed the need for the nation to give more emphasis to the development of power infrastructure because power is critical to the development of any society.
Ishaku, who urged the commission to assist in the rehabilitation of federal roads in Taraba, also drew attention to the need to build the road leading to the hydropower project site, noting that at the moment there was no road to the project site.
Leader of the delegation, retired General Paul Tarfa said his team was in Taraba to find ways the commission could assist the state to develop some infrastructure.
The managing director of the commission, Mohammed Alkali, was a member of the delegation
