Just another day in Nigeria, as international indifference continues. The victims and perpetrators here don’t fit the narrative, and so incidents of this kind are ignored.
“One Man Slain, Children and Others Kidnapped in North-Central Nigeria,” Morning Star News, August 28, 2020:
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen attacked a predominantly Christian village in north-central Nigeria, killing one resident, burning a church building and kidnapping four children among others on Monday (Aug. 24), sources said.
More than 20 herdsmen rode into Damba Kasaya village, Kaduna state, on motorcycles at about 8 a.m. in an attack in which they kidnapped four students, including a 10-year-old girl, from a school.
“Our church, Aminchi Baptist Church, here in Damba Kasaya, was burned, and Mr. Benjamin Auta, aged 35, was killed during the attack,” village resident Nuhu Aruwa told Morning Star News by text message.
Local news reports said Auta was killed while pursuing the fleeing herdsmen, but Aruwa said they killed him in his house, which is close to the school where the students were kidnapped. The herdsmen abducted seven Christians from the village in Chikun County, he said.
“Among them were four students of Prince Academy and one of their teachers,” Aruwa said. “Two other Christian farmers, a woman and a man, were captured and taken away too by the herdsmen.”
Village resident Emmanuel Zakka said three girls were kidnapped among the students – 10-year-old Favour Danjuma, Miracle Saitu Danjuma, 15, and Happiness Odoji, 16 – along with Ezra Bako, 17. Zakka identified the kidnapped teacher as Christiana Madugu, 29.
In the same county’s Damishi village, herdsmen reportedly abducted six Christians on Saturday (Aug. 22) from a hotel where they had taken refuge after Fulani herdsmen attacked their village. Two of the six kidnapped were women nursing babies.
On Saturday (Aug. 22) in Kakura village, in the Kajuma area also in Chikun County, Muslim Fulani herdsmen reportedly kidnapped an Anglican priest and his 10-year-old son. The Rev. Meshach Luka of the Anglican Diocese of Kaduna and his son were kidnapped from his station at Kakura II Kujama Missionary Archdeaconry.
They were freed on Monday (Aug. 24), according to the Hausa Christians Foundation, without providing details of their release.
The assaults were the latest in an acceleration of herdsmen attacks this year in Kaduna state. More than 50,000 Christians have been displaced from 109 villages now occupied by armed Fulani herdsmen in Kachia, Kajuru, Chikun and Kaura counties, all in southern Kaduna state, according to Luka Binnayat Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU).
Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a recent report.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province] and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.
Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds….
somehistory says
Contrary to what the fat, and mean vatican ambassador to Nigeria had to say on the matter, moslims did this because the victims refused islam.
Divine Justice will be administered to all of the guilty, no matter how many reps from the fatican say it isn’t so.
Ismail Ali says
Fake news .hate speech of the highest order ,,from Robert spencers anti Islam mouthpiece ..it is a lie from pit of hell. Iam speaking from the north central Nigeria ..
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims attack Christian village, burn church, kill man, kidnap four children
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*Horrifying*. I hope the children are rescued, but given Nigeria’s record on the Chibok girls and others, I doubt they will be.
Ray Jarman says
+1 GI,
The Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari is complicit and like Europe, Canada and the US (to a lesser extent), the voters keep voting against their best interest. Non Muslims in non-Muslim states actually out number the people living the the Hausa states but simply don’t take the time to vote. Lagos and Port Harcourt alone have huge populations.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Ray.
Ismail Ali says
Population wise ,portharcourt ,river state capital is not as populous as kano ,Kaduna ,Lagos ,Ibadan ,,…the statistics are available .
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Nigerian law mandates that the leader has to be Muslims now. So we can’t expect much from Buhari.
Ismail Ali says
Fake news from the pit of hell.
gravenimage says
Ismail Ali has never had any problem with his coreligionists slaughtering Infidels, so what is he on about here?
mortimer says
Let’s start a collection to send Pope Francis to go to Nigeria to convince Boko Haram that they don’t understand jihad.
Anyone interested?
talleyrand says
A collection !!!!!! ye gods he could pay for half of Italy to join him and not miss it.
ge the Fat ambassador to get of his arse and earn his money
garry pollack says
the Pres of Nigeria is…Muhammadu Buhari…’nuf said?
Ismail Ali says
That’s not true.
gravenimage says
Ismail Ali is saying that Muhammadu Buhari is not the president of Nigeria? What an idiot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Nigeria
Boycott Turkey says
Why is this not mentioned in mainstream media ?
ploome says
because they cannot blame USA or the Jews
Ismail Ali says
Because it is fake news .nothing of that nature .it is lies from pit of hell.
gravenimage says
Ismail Ali has lauded Muslims murdering people before–so why is he demurring now?
Ecosse1314 says
No doubt there will be a a statement any minute fromAl Azhar stating that burning churches is terrorism……still waiting…tumbleweed
ploome says
and while you wait for Al Azhar, you can also wait for the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury
all repugnant hypocrites
ploome says
someone tell the Pope so he can send these muslims more aid and support
Ismail Ali says
Let the pope send the aids to his followers ,we have more poverty strikened westerners within the free Europe .