The Tiv indigenes resident in Nasarawa State have cried out to the Governor, Abdullahi Sule and the President Muhammadu Buhari to save them from their attackers.
The Tiv lamented that their lives are under constant threat by the incessant attacks on them by the Fulani herdsmen.
President of the Tiv Development Association (TIDA), Mr. Boniface Ifer, on Sunday, told journalists that the Fulani have vowed continued attack on his people whenever they meet them on their farms.
Mr Ifer who narrated a recent attack on some of their sons last Wednesday in a farm in a village, injuring them on the head and around the waist region.
He said after the attack on the TIV boys, it was one Yusuf,also a Fulani man that took them to the hospital.
He, however, expressed shock that one of the injured boys was later detained by the police in Agyeragu.
The TIDA President who was not happy with the situation,especially that recently, the governor and his counterpart of Benue state had pleaded that The TIV and the Fulani make peace with one another.
“Our lives are under threat, especially that at this period of raining season, we can not go to our farms for the fear of attack on us by a people whom we ordinarily see as our friends.
“We are no longer safe with the present situation.
“The Nasarawa and the Federal governments need to take the security of our lives and property seriously,as a armless people ,we can not defend ourselves ” Ifer cried out.
Corroborating the President’s cry for help,the chairman of the TIDA in Jenkwe, Simon Ndenyion, said, apart from the attack on the TIV people, three Migili youths were also attacked and that two had lost their lives as a result of the clash.
He, however, appealed to the government to deployed more security around villages of Obi Local Government Area that can monitor the excesses of the Fulani herdsmen who are unrelenting in ensuring that they wrecked havoc on their farms.
