Taraba Govt Speaks On Spending ₦5.22 Billion On Foreign Trips
The Taraba State Government has dismissed reports alleging that Governor Agbu Kefas spent ₦5.22 billion on foreign trips within six months, describing the claims as false, misleading, and not backed by any official record.
The government was responding to speculation in some sections of the media, excluding lawblogng, citing the state government’s website and figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which claimed the governor incurred massive expenditures on international travel.
Reacting in a statement on Sunday, the Commissioner for Information and Reorientation, Zainab Jalingo, said the figures quoted in the report were fabricated.
“This claim is entirely false. It is not based on any official record and constitutes a gross misrepresentation of facts, deliberately presented to mislead the public,” she said.
She stressed that neither the state budget, its official portal, nor the NBS datasets contained such figures.
“We have checked and urged the public to do the same. Until then, the ₦5.22bn claim remains nothing but fiction,” Jalingo added.
The commissioner highlighted what she described as the government’s steady progress in reforms, especially in education, healthcare, and economic development, noting that “transformation is a gradual process, requiring deliberate planning, tough choices, and sustained effort.”
According to her, the results of the Kefas administration’s policies are beginning to manifest across the state.
The government urged residents to disregard the report and rely only on official channels for accurate information, stressing its commitment to transparency, accountability, and truth.
