Plateau Our Heritage Revival Initiative holds summit to seek more developments for State
The Plateau Our Heritage revival initiative, (POHri), has proposed a summit in which to interrogate the backwardness of the state and possibly seek a way out of issues responsible for these.
Announcing this in an in-house memo to members of the group, the Secretary of the POHri, Comrade Friday Bako said the summit is proposed for March 31, 2022.
The two-year-old prestigious non governmental body with members drawn from all spheres of human endeavour will seek to identify key areas that need a change for a better Plateau State having survived the harshest of economic, political and human degradation in recent past.
The body has drawn experts from areas the state has comparative advantage to talk on such as tourism, mining, culture, agriculture, politics and leadership, especially when Plateau used to be the voice of northern minorities and the middlebelt region of Nigeria.
To serve as proposed Guest Speaker is economist and educator; Nde Ezekiel Gomos, former Secretary of the state government and proprietor of the prestigious Jos Business School, (JBS).
Also, the proposed Moderator is a veteran journalist, a former state Chairman of the Plateau State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalist, NUJ, and currently the Manager news and current affairs of the state owned Plateau state Radio and Television Corporation, (PRTVC), Mr. Yakubu Taddy.
Discussants will include, Prof. Patricia Lar, (History of Plateau State), Barr. Dagwong Dang Ph.D (Taxation), Barr. Dr. Henry Longpoe (Legal Aspect) and Victor Kuchili (Business).
The proposed Rapporteurs, are Mr. James Magit who is expected to serve as Chairman, Dr. Jurbe Godep, Secretary, as well as Prof. Christy Best, Dr. Tsenkwo Bholla Joseph and Dr. Edward Bingel among others.
