The President General, Mzough U Tiv MUT, world wide, CG Iorbee Ihagh (Rtd), has called on the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to deploy every available means to return the Internally Displaced Persons in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba States back to there ancestral home.

The former Comptroller General of Prison made this appeal while addressing journalists on the challenges Tiv IDPs are currently facing in the states.

He said for more than 10 years, Fulani herdsmen had continued ransacked most of the Tiv communities in Benue Taraba and Nasarawa state killing thousand of Tiv farmers unchallenged in most cases.

According to him, the carnage on Tiv extraction and wanton destruction of properties had thrown most people communities and culture into near extinction.

“Presently I can not access my village in Kwande Local government of Benue state, my wife late Mrs. Victoria Ashi Ihagh, who died on the October 13 this year was buried some where else.

The For CP therefore called on President Tinubu to rise to the rescue of the Tiv nation and culture from near extinction as a matter of urgency.

“The Tiv nation is in its dark movement because the Fulanis have refused to stop wanton killings in most cases unprovoked. Children, women and older men are the most victims.

“This has greatly distorted and affected farming practice which is the occupation of the Tiv people any where they are found.

“Besides farming, the culture and even the Tiv language is fading away fast because Tiv people are scattered around the country because their land is been taken and inherited by the Fulanis.

“We appeal to Mr. President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to write his name with gold by using his good office as the president to ensure the Tiv people in the three states of Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa return to their ancestral home so that they can also return to their farming practice which will help provide adequate food security.

Ihagh said that the Tiv people are peace loving people and holds the culture with high esteem. But because of the Fulani expedition have abandoned their homes and culture and is near extinction.

He however lamented that despite all efforts by Tiv sons to restore peaceful coexistence between the herders and farmers, killing has continued to ravage Tiv lands.