Benue: We are facing far more sinister motives than farmer herder clashes

Benue facing genocidal invasion by herders, monarch to Tinubu

Revered Benue monarch and Paramount ruler of Tiv Nation, James Ortese Iorzua Ayatse, has disclaimed suggestions that the killings in the state are the result of clashes between herders and farmers. Popularly known by his title, Tor Tiv, Ayatse, described as misinformation the claim that innocent Benue indigenes are also aggressors in the recent killings. He made this known while speaking at the town hall meeting between President Bola Tinubu and…

Benue: We are facing far more sinister motives than farmer herder clashes

The paramount ruler of the Tiv Nation, Tor Tiv V, His Royal Majesty James Ayatse, has refuted claims that the ongoing killings in Benue State are a result

Tor Tiv gets Kudos for Speaking Truth to Power on Benue Crisis

By, Joke Thomas Chairman of the Benue State Traditional Council, Tor Tiv, Orchivirigh Prof. James Ayatse, is getting kudos here and there for point blank statements made when Tinubu visited yesterday. He had praised President Tinubu for being the first sitting President to personally visit victims in the hospital in the wake of such a ...

Benue Monarch Rejects Tinubu’s Narrative, Calls Violence And Killings “Genocide”

The Tor Tiv V of Benue State, Prof. James Ayatse, has strongly criticized President Bola Tinubu’s description of the ongoing violence in Benue State as a “farmers-herders crisis” or “communal conflict.” According to Ayatse, the situation is a “genocidal invasion and land grabbing by terrorists”.   During President Tinubu’s visit to the state amid rising insecurity, Ayatse expressed concern over the misinformation and misrepresentation of the sec…

Benue: We didn’t vote for you on basis of religion, ethnicity – Tor Tiv tells Tinubu

The paramount ruler of the Tiv nation, His Royal Highness, Prof James Ayatse, has called on President Bola Tinubu to do everything to protect the Benue people, saying the people did not vote for him on the basis of religion or ethnicity.   Ayatse made the appeal on Wednesday, when Tinubu paid a condolence visit to the state to commiserate with the people over the killing of over 200 persons last Friday.   The paramount ruler who decried the grue…

Benue killings are genocidal land grabs, not farmer-herder clashes – Tor Tiv

The paramount ruler of the Tiv Nation, His Royal Majesty James Ayatse (Tor Tiv V), has firmly rejected the widespread claim that the persistent violence in Benue State stems from farmer-herder clashes. Describing such assertions as dangerous distortions of reality, the Tor Tiv insisted the crisis is far more serious and rooted in deliberate acts […] The post Benue killings are genocidal land grabs, not farmer-herder clashes – Tor Tiv appeared fi…