The Chairman, Tiv Area Traditional Council led by the Tor Tiv, His
Royal Majesty, Ochivirigh, Prof. James Ayatse has set up a 15-member
committee to do something about the high bride price and expensive
burial requirements for burial rites in Tiv land.
Freddie Adagbe, Media Assistant to chairman of TATC, Prof. Ayatse,
made the revelation via a statement released and made available to
newsmen in Makurdi on Saturday.
The committee, which has three months to submit its report, is headed
by His Royal Highness, Chief Jam Gbinde Ter Ikyor, and had been
directed to investigate the reasons for the high bride price and
recommend ways of addressing the challenge.
Prof. Ayatse lamented that the high bride price was hindering
bachelors and spinsters from getting married, noting that in some cases,
young men resorted to acquiring resources through unacceptable means to
meet up with the challenge.
Ayatse also directed the committee to evolve ways of reducing cost
incurred during burials, lamenting that burials had now been turned to
ceremonies, adding that such practice was totally alien to Tiv culture.
According to him, there is need to address the problem as borrowed
trends of expensive marriages and burials have inflicted poverty on
families. The chairman called on relevant religious bodies and
stakeholders to help in eradicating such borrowed cultures, values and
traditions that were not beneficial to the growth and development of Tiv
land.
The chairman also directed the committee to suggest a decent dress
code to restore the dignity of the people, noting that ordinary people
now put on beads as if they were traditional rulers or title holders.
He also called on the committee to suggest measures that would check
the indiscriminate sales of ancestral land by some family members who
never considered the plight of future generations. Ayatse noted that
such acts were responsible for incessant communal clashes in the area of
recent
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