Herdsmen: Stay Away From Our Land, Tiv Youths Warns
Tue Feb 27, 2018 08:25:am Africa
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Herdsman are advised to stay away from any landing belonging to the Tiv people, according to the Tiv Youth Organisation, TYO, National president. The umbrella body of Tiv youths says, if their warning are ignored, herdsmen will be ,et with full resistance.
Timothy Hembaor, while addressing media in Makurdi, the Benue state capital reminded the herdsmen of their statutory rights over the lands of the Benue Trough, having lived there for more than three centuries. This warnings is as a result of allegations by tribal leaders against personnel of Operation Ayem A' Kpatuma (Cat Race), whom they say are allowing herdsmen to take over Benue land.
Hembaor said: "Therefore, Tiv people will resist with all means at their disposal the confiscation of our land and transmutation of same into grazing areas for herdsmen and their cattle. In essence, the Tiv people are saying no to grazing areas of whatever sort in Tiv land.
"We, therefore, call on President Buhari to respect his oath of office and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, both in content and spirit, and sincerely intervene now and halt the killing of the Tiv people by his kinsmen.
"Failure to do so, the Tiv people are capable of defending themselves against any occupation of our ancestral dwellings."
Timothy Hembaor, while addressing media in Makurdi, the Benue state capital reminded the herdsmen of their statutory rights over the lands of the Benue Trough, having lived there for more than three centuries. This warnings is as a result of allegations by tribal leaders against personnel of Operation Ayem A' Kpatuma (Cat Race), whom they say are allowing herdsmen to take over Benue land.
Hembaor said: "Therefore, Tiv people will resist with all means at their disposal the confiscation of our land and transmutation of same into grazing areas for herdsmen and their cattle. In essence, the Tiv people are saying no to grazing areas of whatever sort in Tiv land.
"We, therefore, call on President Buhari to respect his oath of office and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, both in content and spirit, and sincerely intervene now and halt the killing of the Tiv people by his kinsmen.
"Failure to do so, the Tiv people are capable of defending themselves against any occupation of our ancestral dwellings."
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