From Godwin Agia, Jalingo
It is no longer news that the decision by Governor Agbu Kefas, to install a Chamba man as the first class chief of Takum to abolish the age long ‘Ukwe Takum’s traditional Council in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State has generated serious concerns and tension within and outside the state.
Our correspondent gathered that a fresh tension is brewing following recent alleged utterances by some Chamba elites that the Chambas having two first class traditional stools in Taraba and are gradually taking over the Kwararafa Chiefdom from the Jukuns who are having only one first class ruler in the State.
According to our sources, the Chamba leaders allegedly made the comments recently at Ganye, Adamawa State, during a meeting with Chamba youth Association.
During the said meeting, the Chamba elders allegedly boasted that with General T Y Danjuma, their kinsman, the Chamba ethnic group is capable of displacing any existing traditional institution to their advantage.
It was gathered that these statements by the Chamba elders, did not go down well with prominent Jukun elders in Wukari and Takum who allegedly blamed Governor Kefas for imposing the Chamba tribe as first class chief of Takum to please General Danjuma.
Reacting on the matter, a Jukun elder from Takum, Mr Abraham Tsokwa, who spoke with a group of Journalists in Jalingo on Sunday, expressed dissatisfaction with the measures adopted by governor Kefas in the name of “resolving the Takum age long Traditional Tussle.”
Tsokwa said history shows that the Chambas whose population are minute in Takum, migrated from Adamawa State and the Cameroon Republic to Taraba and were never part of the Kwararafa kingdom.
