Residents urge govt to repair bad roads in Taraba council

Members of the advisory committee on local government autonomy have supported residents of Karim-Lamido local government council in Taraba State, urging the government to repair bad roads in the area.

During a recent engagement meeting with civil society and community-based organizations, residents expressed deep concerns over perceived neglect from the state and federal government.

 They emphasized that the committee’s aspirations for full autonomy for the council may remain unachievable if relevant authorities continue to overlook the council’s major needs.

Mary Jonathan, a local resident, who detailed her struggles reaching Jalingo for the meeting, highlighted the dire state of access roads in the council.

She outlined the ongoing challenges faced by farmers in transporting their produce to markets, which according to her, has created significant hardships for the community.

Other residents urged the two governments to do the needful to achieve the much-desired autonomy in the local government councils spread across the state.

Earlier, the committee chairman, Abel Peter Diah, beckoned at practicing journalists in the state, to tread extra legitimate miles in using their platforms to attract federal government presence to the council.

Diah who observed that the roads in question are federal government roads, pleaded with the government at the center to rescue the people by fixing the roads.

The local government which was established in 1976 as one of the initial regions formed from the dissolved Gongola State, is situated in the northeastern region of Taraba State.

The area is positioned across the River Benue and geographically adjacent to Adamawa State in the east, Plateau State in the northwest, Bauchi and Gombe States in the north, and Lan, ArdoKola, Gassol, and Ibbi Local Government councils in the south.

Residents of the council who are farmers, said the lack of access roads was a significant constraint affecting their farming occupation in the council.