Video On Taraba Crisis Meant To Blackmail Speaker – Taraba Assembly

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By; DEKERA NICHOLAS, Kaduna
The Taraba  State House of Assembly on Tuesday described a documentary on  June, 2017 crisis on the Mambilla Plateau which has gone virile on social media as an orchestrated campaign of calumny against its Speaker, Mr Abel  Diah.
The House in a statement by Mr  Baba Jen, Senior Special Assistant on Media to the Speaker, stated that the documentary was not only absurd but a mischievous ploy by a faceless group to cast aspersions on the personality of the Speaker.
Jen explained that their action was an attempt  to score a cheap political goal.
The statement titled ‘Mambilla Genocide Documentary: A campaign of calumny against the  Speaker’ accused the producers of the documentary of trying to involve Diah in the unfortunate incident by presenting visuals and narration in which lay braze unverifiable claims.
Jen said the faceless group  behind the documentary obviously took delight in the crisis and the attendant suffering of the people of Sardauna Local Government by  continuing to fan the embers of ethnic disunity in a bid to cause further chaos.
“We particularly observed that the social media is of recent, awash with series of brief video titled ‘Mambilla genocide documentary’ in which the producers presented visuals and narration which lay brazen unverifiable claims to the Speaker’s involvement in the unfortunate crisis that bedevilled the Mambilla plateau in recent time.
“It is rather unfortunate that the producers of the video mischievously extract a brief part of the Speaker’s comment during the plenary of the Assembly on 10th June, 2017 while concurring  to the submission of a member of the Assembly representing Nguroje constituency, Alhaji Bashir Mohammed,” he said.
Giving a vivid account of what transpired at plenary on the day in question, the statement noted that Mohammed, while contributing to a joint motion on the need to set up a committee to visit Takum and Ussa to assess the situation following herdsmen attack in the area prayed that the scope of the committee’s work, which was chaired by  Mr Charles Maijankai be extended to Nguroje in Sardauna local government.
Mohammed, according to the statement had stated that there was  an ‘incubating crisis’ in Mayo Sina which if not nipped in the bud could degenerate into a bigger crisis and was unanimously supported and passed by the House after the Speaker had lend his voice to Mohammed’s additional prayer.
Jen therefore challenged the producers of the documentary to circulate the entire contributions of members and the complete remarks of the Speaker during the sitting to allow the discerning public understand the truth of what transpired.
He noted that using a part of the video to depict the negative is not only misleading but an act of cowardice.

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