Tiv youths want Tinubu to end killings, others in Nasarawa
As President Bola Tinubu visits Nasarawa Utter on Wednesday to commission Governor Abdullahi Sule’s legacy projects in Lafia, a Tiv early life neighborhood has called on him to close the incessant attacks, killing of Tiv extraction and land grabbing in the train.
The Tiv Childhood Organisation (TYO) made the appeal at a press briefing on Tuesday in Lafia, the train capital.
In his cope with, Comrade Isaiah Audu decried the persistent attacks which bask in left many Tiv communities in ruins, with rankings of lives lost, farms abandoned, and survivors residing in misfortune and destitution.
Per the TYO President, the most contemporary wave of violence happened on Thursday, June 13 and Sunday, June 15, 2025, affecting a few villages across four native executive areas (LGAs).
The Tiv communities affected, consistent with the TYO president, consist of Dooga Ayande in Doma LGA, Antsa in Keana LGA, Tse Yange in Obi LGA, and Tse Akura in Giza Field Administrative Council. These attacks reportedly resulted in the killing of a few Tiv farmers, including Mr. Terfa Tswabee, Mr. Sham Kyodo, Zaki Kwaghtagher Ordue, and Teryem Aondo Apav. Several others sustained injuries, while many households bask in since fled their ancestral homes.
“These senseless and brutal killings bask in left households traumatised, communities shattered, and a palpable sense of misfortune fascinating our rural populace,” the TYO president lamented.
The early life neighborhood described the violence as a deliberate strive to terrorise and displace indigenous Tiv communities in the train, warning that the persevered occupation and grazing on abandoned farmlands by the attackers would possibly presumably well presumably also consequence in extreme food insecurity in 2026.
The Tiv youths counseled the efforts of Governor Sule, the safety agencies, native executive chairmen, and feeble rulers in Doma, Keana, Obi, and Awe LGAs toward restoring serene.
The neighborhood, then again, expressed deep dissatisfaction as “armed herdsmen proceed to attack our folks, graze freely on abandoned farms, snatch bikes, and harass innocent Tiv farmers at gunpoint, in particular in the southern parts of the train.”
The TYO then put forward the next demands to the train and federal authorities:
TYO needs President Tinubu to train an Rapid and neutral investigation into the most contemporary attacks to name and prosecute the perpetrators.
They furthermore appeal for the rapid deployment of safety personnel to susceptible Tiv communities to be obvious the apt return of thousands of displaced people.
