Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku has told a Federal High Court in Abuja to decline jurisdiction over a suit challenging the legitimacy of a panel of inquiry he constituted to investigate the causes of the incessant crises between the Tiv and Jukun tribes in the state.
The applicants in the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed on their behalf by Sebatine Hon , are contending among others, that the composition of the Commission of Inquiry and its name was skewed against the interest of the Tiv tribe and therefore constituted a threat to their fundamental human rights.
They are praying the court for among others, an order quashing the instrument setting up the commission, and an order quashing its proceedings and order restraining the governor, the government and the AG from receiving and acting on any report from the commission. The applicants stated that not only is Governor Ishaku, who had allegedly worked against Tiv’s interest, a Jukun man, key members of the Commission of Inquiry are from Jukun and allied tribes.They noted that the unending crises between Jukun and Tiv tribes in Taraba State, to which many lives and property have been lost, resulted from the “resolve of the Jukun tribe to forcefully push out the Tiv people from Taraba State for political and other reasons.
During the last proceedings on August 19, 2020, Justice Ahmed Mohammed ordered Ishaku and other respondents in the suit to show cause why the interim restraining injunctions sought by the applicants against them should not be granted.
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