Taraba
State
Governor,
Arc. Darius
Dickson
Ishaku has
assented
to Ndola of
Gola Area,
NGADA,
Development Area creation Order Act 2016,
bringing the numbers of Development Areas in
the State to two.

Governor Darius Ishaku who assented to the
order today in Government House Exco Chamber
Jalingo, spoke of the need to give the people
of NGADA a sense of belonging and to take
civilization to their doorsteps and
commended the Taraba State House of
Assembly for working on the same page with
him to rescue the people and give them a
sense of belonging.
He maintained that history will judge and
remember them right for taking a bold step to
rescue the people and said he shedded tears
when the plight of NGADA people was told to
him and likened their emergence to that of
Koma people in the then Gongola State and
present Adamawa State.

Governor Darius Ishaku blamed the plight of
people to politicians from the area, describing it
as man’s inhumanity to man and challenged all
Tarabans to work towards assisting the people of
the Area to catch up with the present day
modernity.
He also
called on
the
enlightened ones among them to be of help to
each other, describing today as a special day in
the lives of the people and assured them that his
administration will take up the challenge and
responsibilities of ensuring that they are also
provided with all the basic amenities such as
roads, water and electricity.

The Governor also used the opportunity to
specially appreciate his wife, Barr. Anna
Ishaku who is the initiator of the Hope Afresh
Foundation for painstakingly going to the
area despite the difficult terrain and
unearthing their plight, which has today
received Government attention.
Speaking before presenting the NGADA
Development creation Order Act 2016 to the
Governor, the Speaker Taraba State House of
Assembly, Hon. Abel Peter Diah thanked the
Governor for coming to the plight of the people
of NGADA, saying that is a clear demonstration
of his love to the people that have been
neglected for long.
Hon. Abel Diah said after carefully studying the
request of the Governor to create a development
area for the people, the entire members also
keyed into it with a view to giving the people a
sense of belonging and unanimously and
objectively deliberated on it so as to fast track
development at the grassroots with key
emphasis on areas that have been without
Government presence for long.

He commended the members for their zeal,
dexterity and painstakingly keeping faith with the
vision and believing in the fundamental
objectives of the present Government of
Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku that is poised to
bring all people of the State on board via the
rescue agenda.
Speaking to the press on behalf of the people of
Ngada community, the spokesperson, Rev.
Joseph Nagombe thanked Governor Darius
Ishaku for the liberation and said the
creation of God can never be left in isolation
in terms of social life, as God will always
provide a liberator, a saviour and a man with
a heart, determination to salvage the
situation and posited that the purpose of
God on NGADA people was fulfilled through
the leadership of Darius Dickson Ishaku.
He stated that the people have been living in the
area for the past 1000 years since the split of the
Bantu Kingdom and are referred to in the
present day as Ndola and in the past as Ndoro,
explaining that the Ndola of Gola Area was part
of defunct United Hills and later part of Trust
Territory of the British Northern Cameroon.
Rev. Nagombe said the area became part of
Nigeria on 1st June 1961 as a result of a
plebiscite that was conducted and since then it
has been part of Nigeria and praised Governor
Darius Ishaku through the rescue mission that
has brought the area out of total neglect and
rejection.

He stressed that the people of NGADA will
remain grateful and will count it as a major
achievement of this administration.
The spokesperson said the Taraba State
Independent Electoral Commission TSIEC, will
now have additional population of voting age of
about 20,000 to add to its lists of eligible voters
and assured Governor Darius Ishaku of an
unequalled support in 2019 general elections,
reaffirming their commitment of peaceful
coexistence in the area.

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