Tiv Group Lauds Taraba governor Over Return Of IDPs In Southern Taraba

The Tiv people of Taraba state have commended Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba state over his peace efforts to ensure that all the Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) including Tiv in crisis areas of southern Taraba have returned to their ancestral homes.

The group also express happiness over the return of IDPs at Tse-Iorshaegh, Tse-Tormusa, Jandekyula, and Chonku villages of WuKari local area,

The Tiv leaders in a resolution on Friday in Jalingo Taraba state capital call all Tiv sons and daughters within and beyond Taraba to support the governor morally, physically and spiritually to succeed in his efforts to return peace within the southern and central Taraba.

The group, under the umbrella of Tiv Cultural and Social Association (TCSA) through the President General Joshua Ayagwa, calls on the governor to sustain the peace tempo and initiate efforts that would bridge a cordial relationship among the people to avoid recurrence of communal  clashes within the area.

The Coordinator of the IDPs in Tor-iorshaegh Mr. Christopher Adyem while speaking with our correspondent said the IDPs (returnees) have since commenced their farming activities at their various villages with gratitude to the governor for returning them back to their ancestral homes.

Adyem seeks the protection of security agencies to help the Tiv people to continue with their peaceful activities, while he noted that the Tiv people who return to their homes have vowed not to step on anybody’s toes but to go about their normal farming activities within their villages.


He called on the state government to provide basic needs such as food, water and drugs to the returnees, stating that the IDPs fled their homes for over a year without farming activities which have so far of course serious hunger and starvation for the communities.