Tarok Youth Group Accuses Gov Lalong Of Allegedly Denying Dr. Dadi The Position Of CMD, Plateau Hospital Management Board
Yakubu Busari
The Youth Vanguard under the aegis Ngwan Ishi Otarok in North -Central Nigeria, Comrade Shedum Bingtim has said the administration of Governor Simon Bako Lalong is against the Tarok speaking natives by sidelining them over the appointment of sons and daughters of Plateau Southern senatorial district.
The spokesman of the Tarok speaking natives raised alarm in a press statement on Thursday lamented that since the administration came on board it has been playing anti Tarok policy.
“You would recall that in Plateau Hospital Management Board, the Chief Medical Director, Rtd, Dr. Dakwak Dajum Yamma’s tenure expired early this month after undergoing his 3 months’ vacation leave and resumed work on the 12th December 2020 .”
This medium gathered that the governor reappointed Dr. Dakwak Yamma to still continue as the medical director even though his health status is questionable and the most qualified person Dr. Velle Lohdip Dadi after him was not given the opportunity.
However, Dr. Dakwak Yamma alleged refusing to hand over to the next most Senior following his retirement leave and locked up the office including vital documents in his custody were not given out for office use.
Bingtim said the present government did the same when Mrs. Jilli Dandam was due to be appointed as the next Accountant General of the Plateau state but she was frustrated and transferred to Plateau hospital hold a redundant place until she finally retired.
According to him, one of the Tarok sons, Barr Solomon Dalung was kicked out of office despite the overwhelming support accorded Lalong by the Tarok people in the 2015 general polls which spark hatred for them with other ethnic tribes in the state.
He disclosed that the reappointment of Dr. Dakwak Yamma is considered gross abuse of civil service rules because the Plateau Hospital Management Board is not political by appointment but is met for career doctors especially those with adequate qualification to manage the healthy delivery to teeming populace in this outbreak of covid-19 ravaging the world.
We are calling on the Plateau state governor to appoint Dr. Velle Lohdip Dadi who has the prerequisite experience that was tested and trusted to take over as the next most senior medical director in the spirit of one Plateau.
Shedum Bingtim cautioned that once a civil servant is embarking on his retirement leave what is expected was for him, or her to hand over CMAC but in the case of Dr. Dakwak Yamma that tradition was truncated completely.
He pointed out that, Dr. Juryit of the Plateau Primary Health Care Board tenure didn’t end when Lalong brought his kinsman Dr. Livenus Miamkwap as the director with all the condemnation across the Plateau state.
The Tarok youth staged a peaceful protest calling on governor to put tribal agenda aside and appoint Dr. Velle Lohdip Dadi for unity and development of Plateau south as a democrat.
