His father was Doki Abua Tortya of Mbaaposugh, Mbaadigam, of Nyumagbagh council ward in Mbaduku District, Vandeikya.

The Tiv World War II veterans felt the British treated their own kin with injustice through the indirect rule system of governance.

The Tiv were divided into 3 factions and kept under the rulership of the Jukun minority at the North-East, Cross river at the South-south and Lafia division at the North-West.

Dan Afoda was accorded further preeminence by leading the Tiv delegations to the periodic northern Nigerian chiefs meeting in Kaduna, which was the regional colonial headquarters.

The Tiv resented the Hausa control of the courts, political power and landed property...scarcely could the Tiv secure plots of land or find accommodation in Makurdi when they were in transit [11] Doki and some of the World War II veterans like Aemberga Samu, Tsenzughul Tyungu, Ishi Wayo, Gbir Agera started the agitation from Comilla, Bangladesh(formerly India).

On his return from the world war, Doki and his comrades in arms decided to start protests against the perceived hausa caliphate being imposed by the British.

Ochonu posits that, Prior to the riots, The Tiv kept Hausa-Fulani Caliphate agents in check by carefully monitoring their activities on the frontiers of Tivland, by attacking their isolated outposts and trade caravans, by strategically interacting with them, and by building a feared warring infrastructure founded on the infamous Tiv poisoned arrow.

[17] Doki was released from prison after seven years and eight months of incarceration but, the Tor Tiv, Makir Zakpe due to political reasons had to banish him alongside his comrades from Tivland.

[18] After a successful military career, imprisonment, exile and a stint in politics, Doki spent his last days in Tilley Gyado College, Makurdi as a Boarding Master (B.M) from 1974 to 1981.