Headlines | 4 November 2013 12:20 CET

Breaking News: Taraba State Speaker Is Dead

Source: Joy Akosa/Nollywoodgists.com

Taraba State House of Assembly Speaker, Haruna Tsokuua died this Monday morning at the Federal Medical Centre Jalingo, the Taraba state capital. He died of an undisclosed ailment. Mr. Tsokwa took ill last Thursday and was rushed to hospital.

The State Assembly Spokesman, Tanko Kaura confirmed the death of the Speaker.

Haruna Tsokwa had escaped death by the whiskers on September 19 when suspected gunmen attacked his convoy along the Jos – Abuja road. He escaped unhurt but some policemen in his convoy sustained various degrees of gunshot wounds during an exchange of fire between them and their attackers.

Tsokwa attended Federal University of Technology, Yola, and Government Secondary School, Ibbi, for his university and secondary education respectively.

The late speaker is survived by a wife and four children.

May is soul rest in perfect peace.

More details later

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