The paramount ruler of the Tiv nation, Professor James Ortese Ayatse, Sunday, described the Thursday killings and disruption of public order in Ayati communities, Ukum local government area, as barbaric, shocking, and trumatising.
The Tor Tiv in a statement issued by his special assistant on Media and ICT, Freddie Adamgbe, noted that untiring efforts have been made over the years by community leaders, government and the Tiv Area Traditional Council (TATC) to contain the carnage in the Sankera axis. He also noted with dismay that the latest incident with dozens of people murdered in cold blood is depressing.
The Tor Tiv who has been in mourning since the incidence wonders why external forces have kept on sponsoring and murdering, in concert with local misguided elements of the area that have sold themselves to evil and are in complicity in killing their very kith and kin.
He noted that even the latest initiative of Sankera sons and daughters who have had peace meetings, and suing and working for peace to return in the area for the overall development, the perpetrators still carried on their heinous act and urges that no one should feel dampened over the incident to give up.
He condemned the attack and commiserated with direct victims of the attacks and killings, as well as their families, and many that are currently displaced and are living in fear and uncertainty.
While lending his voice for all citizens to cooperate being used by local and external sponsors that the wrath of the traditional authority is fully evoked against them, and any other one directly or complicit in the unending killings in both Ayati and across his domain.with government, security agencies and all initiatives of government, he charged that perpetrators must be fished out and brought to book.
