TARABA STATE SPEAKER IS DEAD

The Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, Haruna Tsokwa died at age 47years of an undisclosed ailment on Monday morning, at the Federal Medical Centre in Jalingo.

Tsokwa reportedly took ill last Thursday and was rushed to the hospital.

The late Speaker, who was a staunch supporter of the acting state governor, Garuba Umar, in the on-going battle for the state, escaped death on the 19th of September following an ambush by unknown gunmen, along the Jos-Abuja road.

Although he escaped the ambush unhurt, some of the policemen traveling with him sustained gunshot wounds.

He attended Federal University of Technology, Yola.