One might almost get the impression that the government is on the side of the jihadis. In fact, many Nigerians have made exactly this charge, as you can see below.
“BREAKING: Bloodbath In Benue As Fulani Herdsmen Kill 28 Residents In Guma Local Council, Army, Police Operatives Demand Money To Find Corpses,” Sahara Reporters, May 11, 2023:
No fewer than 28 people have been killed by Fulani herdsmen in renewed attacks on Mbawa Council Ward in the Guma Local Government area of Benue State, North Central Nigeria.
SaharaReporters gathered that the residents were gruesomely killed by the jihadist terrorists and herdsmen in the local government area between Sunday and yesterday, Wednesday.
Sources who spoke to SaharaReporters on Thursday, accused the Nigerian Army and Police of complicity in the one-month daily attacks in Guma LGA.
A resident of the place who gave his name simply as Barnabas confirmed the ongoing attacks on the Mbawa Council Ward, regretting that soldiers and policemen brought to protect the people did nothing to stop the herdsmen wielding sophisticated weapons.
According to him, the police operatives are also demanding N100,000 to search for corpses of those killed on their farmlands.
He said “Since 2018 up till today our community and other Communities in Guma local government have been under Fulani herdsmen attacks. But now it is getting worse especially since two weeks now, we have not rested in this community.
“Between Sunday and Wednesday, they have killed 28 persons. On Wednesday being yesterday they killed seven, on Tuesday they killed eight, on Monday they killed seven and on Sunday it was six they killed. So that is how it continues, it has become a daily massacre and it is even close to Internal Displaced Camp (IDPs) in Daudu in Mbawa Council Ward and the army camp is also there. In fact soldiers can see those Fulanis with weapons and they will not do anything.
“Last week the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Guma police division; I don’t know how he managed to get the Fulanis and called all our chiefs and some elders for a meeting with the Fulanis. At the meeting he told our people that the Fulanis want to come and live in our community and that we should allow them to live with us.
“Recently the same Fulanis killed 36 persons and today they are here saying that they want to come and live with the same people….
Lamenting the complicit of the security agencies especially the military and police, Barnabas said that when they went to the bush with some soldiers and policemen to recover the corpses of those killed that at a point, soldiers asked them not to go further that Fulanis were in the forest nearby with guns.
“How did they know? For me the security agencies are accomplices in the ongoing killings in our communities,” he stated….
somehistory says
Not just an “impression”….the head of the *government,* if one can call it a government, is mozlum and several others…if not all…in the government, are mozlum.
mozlums control the military there; arms were given or sold to them by the U.S. which supports the mozlum murderers over the Christians, according to a new report and older evidence of not caring if every Christian in that country is slaughtered and every house and farm and church burned if they belong to Christians.
This is in plain fact, government sponsored terrorism, just as much as the terror sponsored by iran, pakistan, saudi arabia, and others.
And given the approval, via the new report, by the U.S. government, because to lie and say mozlums are the victims and Christians the culprits, is approval of what is happening.
Ralph says
“Religion of peace”!
Joe1 says
The police knew that the terrorists were serial killers, but they didn’t arrest them. In fact, they wanted to give them the victims’ property. This is Europe in a few more years. It seems that NYC and San Francisco are on the same trajectory.
The central theme of Islam is world domination (not beatitude as it is in legitimate religions). Throughout history, Islam has by spread by force (not evangelization).
MItch says
The rest of the world is turning a blind eye to the Nigeria Christian, so this continues over and over again.
Queen says
This is the situation Nigerian Christians find themselves. The outgoing President who is himself s jihadist made sure all the security operatives are headed by northerners where he’s from and Muslims his religion. There’s bern pogrom going on targeted at Christian communities in the North and innocent youths in the East. It’s likely going to get worse if the selected president that ran a Muslim Muslim ticket is sworn in..