Group alerts Nasarawa governor on impending security threat
Tiv farmers of Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa state have alerted the state Governor, Abdullahi Sule of an impending security threat posed by alleged confiscation of their farmlands by the chairman of Keana Local Government Area and the paramount ruler of Giza chiefdom.
The group in a letter of complaint addressed to Governor Abdullahi Sule, alleged that the local government Chairman, Adamu Adi, in collaboration with the Sangari Giza, Umaru Abu ll, are laying claim to the ownership of farmlands in most communities across the council area.
However, investigation has revealed that some parcel of land in the local government was donated to the Obi Local Government Chairman, Iyimoga Oyigye, who subsequently, drafted a rent agreement entitled: “Amuda Farm rent” for anybody desirous of acquiring farmlands.
The agreement reads in part: “That the said land is for farming only and no structure is allowed to be erected without prior consent of the landlord.
“That the tenant shall not assign, sublet or part with possession of the portion of the land allotted to him or any part of it without the consent of the landlord on every occasion first obtain.
“That the landlord retains the reversionary interest in the property and shall acquire back the portion of land allotted to the tenant upon receipt of notice to deliver up the said portion.”
But, in the letter jointly signed on behalf of the group by Kuza Augustine and Nongu Philip, the Tiv farmers called on the governor to urgently intervene in the matter to avert possible breakdown of law and order in the area.
The alleged farmlands confiscated by the council chairman and the mornach are Kuduku and Ihwobo Amudu communities on the ground that the Tiv people are not indigenes of the local government and the state.
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Other communities are Tse Tyough, Agom Mlan, Madi, Tse Utsaha , Ankyegh, Kalachi, Ikpugh Bija, Dogo, Awuaga, Ajo, Tse Ahan, and Ambir communities where their economic trees were cut down and burnt, while graveyards were desecrated.
Our correspondent also gathered that Chahul, Wergba, Usen, Debam, Abebe, Tachia II and II, Jimin, Agberagba, Obosidoma and Adaga communities have also suffered the land seizures, leaving over 100,000, populace helpless.
