…Asks Ortom, Ishaku, religious, traditional leaders to intervenePresident Muhammadu Buhari has expressed displeasure over the escalating Tiv/Jukun crisis, calling on the parties in both Benue and Tara
ba States to end the killings immediately.
In a State House statement issued on Friday, Buhari asked the Governors Darius Ishaku of Taraba and Samuel Ortom of Benue, royal fathers, “specifically the Tor Tiv and the Aku Uka of Wukari, religious and community leaders in the two states” to convene meetings to find solutions to the conflict.
“The persistent deaths and destruction and the seeming desire by the warring sides to push each other to extinction is embarrassing, and this is against the essence of our ethnic and religious diversity in the country.
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