The grievance of the MUT was the subsisting stereo-typing of the Tiv people that they offer their wives to visitors to sleep with as part of hospitality. Counsel to the plaintiffs, Sebastian Hon, SAN, who spoke with journalists after the court session, said that the reliefs sought by the MUT, among others, was a legal declaration that such a custom does not, is alien to, and has never existed in Tivland.
The legal luminary said that irked by the ridicule and the trauma on the Tiv psyche, the MUT had no choice than to take the Tiv Area Traditional Council to court for standing aloof while the demeaning stereotyping persisted for ages without response. Counsel to the defendant, Edward Ashiekaa , told journalists “the allegation is false. Completely false.