Group Urges Ishaku , Ortom To End Taraba/ Benue Border Killings

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Governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, and his Benue
State counterpart, Samuel Ortom have been tasked with
bringing the incessant killings in the border communities of
the two states to an end as soon as possible.

President, Tiv Cultural and Social Association, Taraba
state Chapter, Hon. James Nungwa gave the charge in
Jalingo on Tuesday while reacting to recent killings and
abductions of people in Takum local government area of the
state. According to him, the call has become imperative in
order to bring permanent peace to the communities.

Tiv youths from Benue state and Jukun youths in Taraba
have been killing and kidnapping innocent people in recent
times thereby fuelling tensions and fears of escalation of the
clashes.

Although recent history showed that people from the two
ethnic extractions once lived in peace sharing a similar fate;
political and economic marginalization. However, the conflict
that has been on for years keeps degenerating. It has been
described as the most violent dispute in central Nigeria since
the Nigeria Civil War. The conflict has been about
land,traditional and modern political power as well as
indigeneship.

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