Sowore Condemns Taraba Governor Kefas Over "Fake Promises", Decaying Schools, Deadly Roads As Residents Groan

Human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, has condemned Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas, for deceiving residents of the state and Nigerians with "fake promises" of free education. 

Sowore said the governor has placed more priority on his (Agbu) personal comfort than abandoned schools, collapsing roads, and the welfare of the people.

The fiery activist, in a series of posts on his Facebook page, accompanied with pictures, said that Governor Kefas has turned Taraba into “a symbol of failed promises and misplaced priorities.”

In one of the posts, Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), said, “Taraba Under Agbu Kefas: From Fake Free Education to Terrible Roads. 

“Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State is fast becoming a symbol of failed promises and misplaced priorities. He boasts of “free education,” yet schools remain abandoned, underfunded, and without infrastructure.”

Sowore revealed that in Donga Local Government Area, only 30–40 minutes from the Governor’s hometown of Wukari, students in a science school are left to rot in dilapidated buildings with no hope for quality education.

“The decay is not limited to schools. Across Taraba, the road network is collapsing. In the northern part of the state, the road to Karim Lamido LGA is virtually impassable,” he said.

“In ruins now is the road from Wukari to Abuja, which also links Taraba to Nasarawa State. Also abandoned is the vital road leading to Kurmi LGA. Even the international route connecting Taraba to Cameroon has broken, and people have forgotten it.”

Sowore further noted that in Wukari, the governor’s hometown, the inequality is glaring, stressing that the government fully tarred and fitted the road leading to his personal house with solar lights. 

“Yet those of neighbours who live just behind him are left struggling with erosion, darkness, and neglect,” he said. 

“This hypocrisy speaks louder than his promises, he secures comfort for himself while leaving his neighbours and the rest of Taraba in misery. 

“People who lived in the same hometown as him, only a stone’s throw from his residence in Wukari. 

“The contrast between the governor’s private comfort and the suffering of the surrounding people is an insult to justice and fairness.”

He emphasised that Taraba State deserves roads that connect its communities, schools that provide its children with a future, and leadership that serves everyone, “not one that hides behind a façade of “free education” while diverting resources to personal comfort.”

In another post, Sowore said that in Taraba State today, the only functioning road is the one that leads directly to the home of the “self-centered” Governor Kefas.

In another post, the activist said that across the state, communities are left stranded with broken and impassable roads, while Governor Kefas secures only his own comfort, noting that the contrast could not be more damning.

“At the same time, his government peddles propaganda, claiming that “investors are flooding” Taraba. 

“Yet, the reality tells a different story. The so-called Trade Fair Center in Jalingo, into which more than N10billion has already been sunk, remains incomplete, reduced to nothing but a few lonely pillars standing as monuments of waste,” he wrote. 

He added, “It is the perfect picture of leadership that serves itself while abandoning the people. Across the state, schools are left to rot, clean drinking water is unavailable, and roads have collapsed in key areas like Karim Lamido, Ussa, and Mayo-Ndaga. 

“The basic foundations of governance, education, infrastructure, and public utilities have been neglected, leaving ordinary citizens to suffer while the governor hides behind empty rhetoric. 

“Some of these photos were taken as recently as last week, yet they look like scenes pulled straight out of 1945 during the Second World War. 

“That is the level of neglect and decay Taraba people are forced to endure in 2025 under Agbu Kefas disastrous rule.”

Also, in another post attached with a photo of students sitting on the floor during lessons, Sowore said, “Taraba State of Education in 2025, not 1945.” 

According to him, Taraba students are still writing exams on the floor while billions of Naira have been stolen from the state’s public funds and children of the state abandoned. 

“This photo was taken in Wukari LGA, Taraba State, at Government Day Secondary School (GDSS) Wukari, the hometown of the accident of a governor, Agbu Kefas. 

“A governor who claims to champion "free education" yet this humiliation reduces students in his very backyard to nonentities.”

Sowore further berated the governor in another post, saying that students are being kidnapped. 

According to him, “The governor who is trying to improve the education sector in the state has been so bad that his state students become useless.” 

The human rights activist in another post said that all over Taraba State “where tornadoes made Agbu Kefas Governor”, people pushed buses to dust, leaving them on unpassed roads.  

He said “The only way he can remove it is the one you take to his house. This is a bad example. 

“It was at this time and he was spreading rumors that investors were "moving" to Taraba.”

Sowore further revealed that the global market in Jalingo, the state capital, which is currently costing over N10 billion, is yet to be grounded, left to be shattered like a goddess.

“This shows where the leadership of the nation is, who doesn't care about the people's concern,” he said.

He noted, “In the whole state, schools are left scattered, no clean water. All the roads to important places like Karim Lamido and Ussa, and Mayo-Ndaga are all dead.

“Biggest leaders such as education, nation building services, and public benefits are all neglected when the poor are left in suffering while the governor is lying.

“These pictures you see are less than a week ago. But you say world war 2 was done in 1945 there. 

“The kind of neglect and destruction that the people of Taraba have suffered in 2025, all under the leadership of Agbu Kefas.”

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