Taraba United and Taraba Queens players last week Friday locked up the gate of Taraba State government house in Jalingo as they demand for their unpaid salaries.
The Taraba Queens players claimed that the state government owed them 21 months salaries while Taraba United Football Club players claimed the state government owed them salaries for eleven months.
Now, according to Grace Michael, Taraba Queen captain, she said they were at the Government House to hear explanations from the State Governor, Darius Ishaku on why they were neglected for two years.
Grace stated that the players could not feed nor attend to medications due to lack of salaries for twenty one months.
"We are here because we need explanations from the Governor on why we are being treated this way, we are not going anywhere till he comes out to address us, we are not going to listen to any other person because others have been deceiving us for too long."
Also the captain of Taraba United Stephen disclosed that the players of the team have been feeding from road side food vendors for so many months on borrowed money.
Stephen said one of the players was almost arrested yesterday in one of the local restaurants over a debt of N8000, which he incurred at the sestaurant.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Sylvanus Giwa, representing the governor only confirmed it but failed to address the issue. The case of these patriotic Tarabans were not properly handled, otherwise why would the governor not address their concerns.
Football in Taraba is unifying and governor Darius whose primary interest is to build on the peace he has restored in the state, should endeavour that these players are taken care of and are paid their entitlement.
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