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Kaigama warns against sale of Mambilla tea factory

By Charles Akpeji, Jalingo
16 February 2023   |   4:00 am
Presidency: North has four-year deficit, suffered more under Buhari, says Ango AbdullahiImmediate past President of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Bobboi Kaigama, has called on Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State to as a matter of urgency discard his plan to privatise the Mambilla Beverages Company.

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Presidency: North has four-year deficit, suffered more under Buhari, says Ango AbdullahiImmediate past President of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Bobboi Kaigama, has called on Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State to as a matter of urgency discard his plan to privatise the Mambilla Beverages Company.

Rather than going ahead with the privatisation plans, he urged the governor to declare the profit so far made by the company from its inception.

Making the demand at a media parley organised by the Taraba Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), the former trade union boss, who is New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) senatorial candidate for Taraba Central, wondered why the governor wanted to sell the company without following due process.

Kaigama, who asserted that the company’s host community had not been compensated for their land, lamented that the shareholders of the company were neither consulted nor briefed on such decision.

Stressing that the company had been profitable, the former labour leader beckoned the government to make the privatisation process very transparent, if the factory must be sold.

“Taraba indigenes have shares in the company. What has the government done to those shares? It should pay us compensation for our land before privatising the company,” he said.

According to him, rather than sell the company, which had been generating profit, the government should judiciously make use of the profits made so far to better the life of the host community and the state at large.

Optimistic of emerging victorious in next month’s polls, Kaigama decried the absence of state and federal government presence in Taraba Central, assuring that the situation would be a thing of the past if he becomes the senator representing the zone.

He described NNPP’s Rabiu Kwankwaso as the best presidential candidate Nigerians have to rally round, he said the present economic predicaments of the country would force Nigerians to reject the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in next week’s general elections.
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