‘Why The Junkun Are Now More Aggressive Against The Tiv’

The reason has emerged why the Junkun ethnic group in Taraba State are allegedly becoming more aggressive towards their Tiv counterpart.

Chairman Tiv Cultural Association in the state, Mr.Goodman Dahida, who made the allegation said it is simply because the current governor of the state is Junkun.

Dahida made the assertion while reacting to allegation that the Tiv ethnic stock were the more aggressive side in the recent conflict with the Ichen.

Discounting the claim as baseless, Dahida alleged that over 80 Tiv were massacred by the Ichen militia in Maraban Donga and Anauno and other Tiv villages, and that this was part of a grand agenda of Ichen and Jukun to eliminate the Tiv completely out of Taraba State.

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“God knows who started the attack, but Tiv people were attacked, killed and their property destroyed by the Ichen, but the same Ichen are accusing the Tiv of attacking them without provoking the Tiv”

According to him, the Ichen had mobilised Jukun militia from different places to attack and kill the Tiv, which was part of their grand plan to eliminate the Tiv people in Taraba state, adding that land was not the real motive.

“There was a crisis when both Tiv and Ichen were under former Benue/Plateau and during defunct Gongola State.

 “To our understanding, the Jukun people are now more aggressive against the Tiv simply because their son is the Governor of the state,” Dahida said, adding that the Tiv suffered heavy casualty because in Maraban Baissa alone, about 50 Tiv were massacred and their houses burnt down by Jukun militia.