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No fewer than 6,718 indigenous Tiv farmers have been displaced following violent attacks that have sacked 314 communities in Southern Nasarawa State, the United Farmers Association of the Benue Valley (AUFBV) has alleged.
The association’s President, Chief Dennis Gbongbon, raised the alarm in a statement issued in Makurdi on Thursday after making a presentation at a security town hall meeting in Jos, Plateau State.
According to him, the displaced farmers have been abandoned by the Nasarawa State Government despite the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis.
Gbongbon described the attacks as a “well-planned, calculated genocide, ethnic cleansing, and land grabbing campaign launched and sponsored by organised terror groups and some local leaders, including traditional rulers in Southern Nasarawa State.”
He further warned that the humanitarian situation was deteriorating as thousands of affected farmers remain without food, shelter, or security support, noting that the plight of women and children was particularly dire.
“The Tiv population in Southern Nasarawa has been repeatedly targeted, and government silence is only emboldening the perpetrators,” he said.
Gbongbon appealed to the Federal Government and international humanitarian organisations to urgently intervene, stressing that the crisis requires immediate attention to prevent further displacement and loss of lives.
The allegations were earlier reported by Aljazirah newspaper, which observed that Tiv communities in the area continue to suffer waves of violent invasions with little or no government response.
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