Taraba govt clarifies reports on alleged absence of forest guard in state 

The Taraba authorities authorities has dismissed reports alleging that wood guards are absent from farming communities crossed the state, insisting that each unit recruited nether the inaugural person been afloat deployed.
Dismising the claims connected Tuesday successful Jalingo, the Special Adviser to politician Agbu Kefas connected Security and Intelligence Matters, Colonel Joshua Garbiya Kwelle (rtd), said the 750 wood guards recruited by the authorities authorities person undergone grooming and person been deployed crossed the 16 section authorities councils.

According to Kwelle, the wood defender programme, launched successful 2025, was designed to unafraid wood corridors, stitchery intelligence, and forestall bandits and different transgression elements from utilizing forests arsenic operational bases.

He explained that the operatives are stationed successful strategical locations passim the state, with offices established successful each section authorities areas to enactment their operations.

The information advisor noted that though the wood guards are not assigned accepted assemblage policing duties, their activities play a captious relation successful enhancing information for farming communities and agrarian residents.

Addressing concerns implicit the payment of the personnel, Kwelle disclosed that arrangements are being made to guarantee outgo of salaries, noting that the wage operation is presently being finalized pending the completion of federa...