This would certainly explain why the government never does anything effective to stop the jihadis.
“’We are on our own’: Christians in Nigeria Convinced Soldiers Working with Islamists,” by Agnes Aineah, ACI Africa, August 2, 2023:
An incident that happened recently in Riyom Local Government Area of Nigeria’s Plateau State where Fr. George Barde had gone to conduct a mass burial of victims of Fulani attacks opened the eyes of the locals, especially Christians, to a harsh reality: that they are on their own, faced with the raging Islam jihad in the West African country.
It started when two young men who were keeping vigil at the wake were shot; one in the leg and the other in the buttocks.
“The Fulanis were hiding in the bushes and they saw the light from a fire that the boys who were keeping vigil had lit. From their hideout, they shot the boys. The one who was shot in the leg managed to run to the settlement to relay the news that the people were under attack,” Fr. Barde narrates to ACI Africa.
An ambulance was immediately called to rush the two injured men to hospital. Seven men on the vehicle were attacked and killed in what was reported as one of the most gruesome attacks in Riyom happening on a day of a mass burial.
“What got locals surprised the most was that when the gunmen fled after shooting the seven men, they went in the direction of a military post located just about two kilometers from the settlement that had been attacked. The gunmen didn’t run in any other direction because they would have been killed. Instead, they ran towards the military post, passed a checkpoint, and disappeared,” Fr. Barde, the priest in charge of St. Laurence Catholic Parish Riyom in Nigeria’s Archdiocese of Jos says, adding that five of the seven men were members of his parish.
It wasn’t the first time that the locals had suspected the military to be working in cahoots with the militia to target the Christian community in Riyom.
On several other occasions, in the wake of gruesome attacks, locals had found guns, military belts, and other things belonging to soldiers left behind.
“Locals here don’t trust the soldiers anymore. The soldiers have been sent here in large numbers but when they come, they tell us openly that they have come to protect the minority group. Here, the minority group is the Fulanis. When they say that they have come to protect the minority group, we know exactly what they mean,” Fr. Barde says.
The Nigerian priest who bemoaned the killing of the last man at one of the outstations of his parish now believes that Fulanis who are on a killing spree in Riyom have the support of the “high and mighty” occupying top positions in government and that soldiers are being paid to carry out some of the killings targeting Christians….
somehistory says
this is what some of us have been saying all along. The government is run by mozlums…of the same “tribe” as the murderers. They are in “cahoots” with the ones doing the murdering.
In my own opinion, the weapons that the U.S. has supplied to the nigerian mozlum government, said to be for fighting terrorism, goes directly to the “fulani” mozlums who are slaughtering Christians by the tens of thousands. Some of these murderers are indeed soldiers and the others are protected by the soldiers…using the weapons supplied by the U. S. government….paid for by American taxpayers.
Instead of “fighting terrorism,” they are engaging in terrorism….daily murdering innocent people.
Yes, the Christians are on their own as far as getting human help. they must pray for, and rely on, help from Above.
Bob says
You’re absolutely correct, it’s because a biden/OBAMA controlled government in America is into backing Muslim governments (i.e. the Palestinian, Nigerian, Pakistani, Bangladesh, and Egyptian governments), leaving Christians and Jews are on their own to fend for themselves…..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Memo to Nigerian Christians – and other native faiths: start forming militias to take on both Boko Haram & the regime. Do what you can to smuggle in arms. You need a civil war to halt the one-way genocide that has been happening to non-muslims throughout this century
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
The Christians in Nigeria – somehow – have to start firing back.
Fitna says
Agreed they need guns….non-Muslim countries should be arming and backing them…instead we’re helping Ukraine and ignoring the Muslim genocide of Christians and others sadly.
They should topple the Muslim gov’t too…they’re part of the problem.
somehistory says
Jesus with instructions for His disciples.
””But now,” said He, “let the one who has a purse take it, and he who has a bag must do the same. And let him who has no sword sell his outer garment and buy one.” .. Luke 22
Just before this, He asked them about having sent them forth to preach the good news without purse or bag and if they had lacked anything. They answered, ‘no.’ and then He said the above about carrying a purse, or bag and buying a sword.
It is not un-Christian to engage in self-defense.
Raja says
Somehistory,
That reminds me of keeping a window bar (steel) on top of the doorway in case any goon came barging with a sword. In India stealing properties is a free-for-all and the entire admin is in cahoots with the mafia.
somehistory says
Raja,
The world has always been a dangerous place, since Adam and Eve were sent from the Garden.
But, the times we are seeing now, are the most dangerous in mankind’s history.
Raja says
Infidel,
The sad part is the world is still opinionated by what the Left thinks of how to run the global govts. They are so thuggish that they cannot accept the fact that islam is all for subjugation and genocide, you call it by any other name.