The Tiv/Jukun crisis in Taraba State has a long history. It is more than 40 years, yet when the Tiv speak about it, they create the impression that it is the creation of the Ishaku administration.
Propaganda has, unfortunately, taken the centre-stage in the on-going crisis between the Tiv and Jukun in Taraba State and has thus rendered truth the major casualty.
True, they’ve got a lot of crocodile tears and are very skilful in the art of shedding them to deceive the public. Since the first day of June this year, the Tiv militia groups have been in the trenches, killing and maiming and burning houses in Jukun communities in Taraba Central Senatorial Zone. The next thing the Tiv groups did after inflicting these injuries on the Jukun was to send their propagandists to Abuja to cry before a national media audience to win sympathy for their false story of a plot by the Jukun to annihilate the Tiv in Taraba State.
Today, they pretend that no such thing happened. Ishaku whom they praised then for welcoming them home with open hands is the same person they are now accusing of prosecuting genocide against them. How ungrateful! They were signed by leaders of communities from the two sides as well as other critical stakeholders from Benue and Taraba states.
No sooner did participants at this crucial and highly successful meeting return home than the Tiv launched yet another attack on Jukun locations to show their displeasure and rejection of the outcome of the meeting. This comes to him in the form of the lamentations of those whose bread winners and loved ones get killed in the crossfire and those whose homes are razed and who are suddenly rendered destitute by the action of the fighters on both sides.
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