‘He was left in pieces’: Man’s death results in Tiv/Fulani clash in Taraba

by ‘Jola Sotubo

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A Tiv man in Taraba has lost his life after a minor disagreement between him and a Fulani man resulted in the former being butchered.

His death is then said to have caused a full scale battle between two factions of the affected tribes.

The incident occurred in the Bantaji environs of the Wukari Local Government Area of the state and the deceased was believed to be in his forties.

Leadership reports:

An eye witness told LEADERSHIP that a minor disagreement between a Tiv man and a Fulani man resulted in a fight that left the Tiv man in pieces in Wukari market.

The incident degenerated into a factional clash as the squabble moved from the market to the major highway.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the fight moved from the market to the major high way, the popular Jalingo- Wukari road, where the Tiv and Fulani factions engaged each other in a free for all fight.

It was further gathered that the clash compelled commuters, plying the high way, to stop several kilometres away from Bantaji, the urban centre of the city.

LEADERSHIP learnt that it took the combined efforts of both the military and the police to bring the crisis under control and restore normal vehicular movement in the area.

The spokesman of the Taraba State police command, Joseph Kwaji, confirmed the incident.

He, however, said that normalcy had returned to the area and called on residents to go about their normal activities, adding that the police was on top of the situation.

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