SEE FATHER'S DEATH @106 AS CELEBRATION OF LIFE - PLATEAU PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION (PPA)

SEE FATHER'S DEATH @106 AS CELEBRATION OF LIFE - PLATEAU PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION (PPA) .

By Nanyah Daman. 

The Plateau Publishers Association has urged Chief Barr Robert Taple JP, the Executive Chairman of the Plateau State Local Government Service Commission to see the demise of his father, Baba Andrawus Taple at the ripe age of one hundred and six(106) years as that of the celebration of life and not mourning. 

The admonition was was made when Chief Amos Gizo, the Magajin Gid-Gid led the Board of Trustees (BOT),the Executive Council and members of the PPA on a condolence and sympathy visit to the Rayfield residence of Chief Robert Taple. 

Gizo further told the bereaved to see the death of their father, grandfather and great grandfather as the wish of God.

On the entourage of Chief Amos Gizo,the Chairman of the PPA and the Publisher of the Citywatch Magazine were Chief Amb Nanyah Andrew Daman,BOT member and the Group Managing Editor of the NewsGate Magazine,Pastor Emi Ossai,BOT member and the Editor in Chief of the National Crusader,Hon Daniel Kura, Secretary of the PPA and the Publisher of the News Parrot Newspaper,Chief Mrs Yuwana Enoch, Treasurer of the PPA and Chief Executive Officer/Publisher of the NewsCrest Newspaper, Deaconess Florence Amos,Financial Secretary of the PPA and the Publisher of the Times Newspaper,Elder Yakubu Ajala, Public Relations Officer of the PPA and the Publisher of the Express Journal,Pastor Dan Bok,the Publisher of the National Horizon Magazine,and Mr Jerry Jatdul, the Publisher of the Age Newspaper.

Earlier the Plateau State Commissioner of Higher Education, Hon Kak'mena Goteng Audu commiserate with the family and urged them to bear the irreparable loss believing that Baba is resting in the bosom of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Audu said Baba was like a father to all those residing in Vel-Pankshin.

Also the National President of Vel Development Association on a condolence visit urged the Taple family to be comforted with the loss of Baba,the Patriarch of the family. He said the people of Vel Pankshin will greatly miss the wise counsel of Baba as he was their moral compass. 

In his response, Chief Barr Robert Taple, the Chief Mourner thanked all for the show of love and concern which goes a long way in comforting the entire family.He said Baba lived a fulfilled life in Christ Jesus with twelve children, two dead,thirty grand children and forty-two great grand children. 

The Plateau State Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) led by its State Chairman, Hon Ezekiel Pabuet Vuelgap, the Plateau State Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) led by the State Chairman,and Mr Izam Atang Azi,the former Plateau State Head of Service were all present to condole with the Taples.