Just a day after the Aboi District Demand Committee (ADDC) urged the state government to declare Aboi as a district on August 15, the Tobu District Demand Committee (TDDC) has reaffirmed its demand for a separate Tobu district and requested the ADDC not to include Tobu and Moka under Aboi district demand.
In a press release, TDDC secretary Sangti Konyak stated that the committee’s demand for separate Tobu district was for “just and effective governance”.
TDDC claimed that the state government posted I Alienba Ao as the deputy commissioner Tobu as early as in 1987. The committee also said that in the year 2006 Tobu sub-division civil society organisation made proposal to the state government for upgradation of Tobu ADC headquarters to full-fledged district headquarters.
Subsequently in the year 2007, it said the proposal of the TDDC for up-gradation to district headquarters under Mon district was the only demand included in the notification issued under home department, GAB-1 in the “list of Demands for creation/up gradation and changes in Administrative Head Quarters”. TDDC said that the demand for Tobu district was “a public cry for justice to fill the infrastructural and staffing gaps, to improve the service delivery system, economic upliftment and lasting peace”.
Further, the committee stated all the relevant documents and profile of Tobu district demand endorsed with signature of village councils and other stakeholders of Tobu and Moka have been submitted to the state government time and again. TDDC expressed optimism that the decade-old aspiration and prayer of Tobu and Moka would soon be achieved under the leadership of chief minister Neiphiu Rio.
It said that Tobu was the oldest administrative sub-division in the district established.
Appealing to the Aboi District Demand Committee not to include Tobu and Moka under Aboi district demand, the committee said that the people of Tobu and Moka were demanding for separate district after getting endorsement from series of public rallies at Angjangyang, Mopong and Tobu since the year 2006.
Meanwhile, TDDC has urged the nine Konyak legislators, Konyak Union (Mon), Konyak Students’ Union, KNSK Mon, Mon District GB’s Association, KVCU Mon, KBBB Mon and all the “neighbouring brothers” to extend support and cooperation towards its demand.