Tiv community in Dan Anacha Urban
settlement, Gassol Local
Government area of Taraba State
has written a petition to the
Speaker of the Taraba State House
of Assembly over alleged ethnic
cleansing against Governor Dairus
Ishaku .
They also alleged that Governor Darius Ishaku, has
changed the name of the biggest Tiv settlement in
Taraba, which is designated as an urban town and
named it after Jukun.
But another Tiv group in Taraba called Tiv Culture,
led by Goodman Dahida dismissed the allegation and
commended Governor Darius Ishaka for his effort
towards the return of Tiv people who were sent
packing back to Taraba state by the previous
administration.
Goodman Dahida told The Nation that the governor
is the reason Tiv people now live peacefully in
Taraba.
A four-page petition to the Speaker of the Taraba
State House of Assembly signed by Hon Jacob
Gbagede and 26 other Tiv persons in Dan Anacha
town in Taraba State, obtained exclusively by The
Nation, stated that Governor Darius hate the Tiv
People in Taraba State.
The petition titled: Petition against the purported
change of the name Dan Anacha settlement to
Kwararafa by Governor Darius Ishaka as announced
by the chairman of Gassol Local Government Area
Yahuza Yaa’U during a security meeting held at
Mutum- Biyu on 22nd/ July / 2016 “ .
The group under the auspices of “Tiv Community Dan
Anacha” alleged further in their petition which was
copied the Senate President, Speaker House of
Representatives, National Human Rights
Commission, Inspector General of Police and
Director General DSS among other federal agencies,
that apart from Dan Anacha, other Tiv villages in
Taraba which the governor had changed to Jukun
language included: Tiv-Jukun, Ayu-Tsokundi,
Tormusa-Jibwaje, Tsekaakir-Chudan, Toho Abanyo-
Adikyan, Ikperen-Kemberi, Genyi-Rafinkada, Anyam
Kwevel-Bichi, to mention but a few.
It said the tiv kindred head of such villages were also
replaced with Jukun tribe heads.
An attempt to speak to the Chief Press Secretary to
the Governor of Tarabas state on his mobile line
failed as he neither retuned calls nor text messages
sent into his phone .

-The Nation