[ April 24, 2024 ]
Armed herdsmen have been attacking Christians in central Nigeria with abandon, leaving behind families and victims torn by violence, destroyed by senseless killings.
The attacks are targeting the religion. And they’ve been occurring with alarming frequency.
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Yet the media, ever alert to report on attacks against Muslims and perceived hate crimes that hit at the religion of Islam, are strangely silent on these horrendous incidents.
Morning Star News has more:
Crestfallen, the 48-year-old Christian sat in his house in Miango, central Nigeria, where three of his children were killed a week before.
“These series of attacks have been carried out against us Christians in this area for some time now by these armed herdsmen, and we don’t know precisely why they are doing this to us,” Joseph Gah Nze told Morning Star News. “In spite of these attacks on us, what I can is that we are dependent on God for grace to overcome these challenges. We have no other option than to pray, seeking the face of God, and for these herdsmen to come to know Jesus Christ, as it is only when they know Jesus that they can stop attacking us Christians.”
A member of Evangelical Church Winning All in Nzharuvo village, Miango, near Jos in Plateau state, Nze said Fulani herdsmen broke into his house on at 10 p.m. on March 8 and killed his three children – 12-year-old twins Christopher and Emmanuel, and 6-year Peace Joseph – and 18-year-old nephew Henry Audu. Wounded and receiving hospital treatment was 4-year-old nephew Chanka Amos.
“My house is located in the outskirts of this area, and so it became the first to be attacked,” he said. “But because the sound of gunshots in my house alerted the other Christians around here, they quickly mobilized themselves and repelled the attackers, forcing them to retreat.”
His wife managed to escape.
In the Klah area in Miango, the Fulani herdsmen terrorized another house that night. Jummai Samaila, a 45-year-old mother of nine children and a member of the ECWA church in Tudun Wada, Miango, was hiding in her house when her husband was shot and killed.
Samaila Isa, 55, was a Fulani Christian.
Jummai Samaila, whose house is located at a Christian mission high school built by SIM missionaries, told Morning Star News in an interview at her home that her husband was resting and listening to news on a radio. She said she had gone to sleep in their bedroom while he remained in front of the house.
“I was woken up by heavy sounds of gunshots,” Samaila said. “The herdsmen shot at our windows, and as I woke up I saw dust all over the room. The room was covered with dust, and I could not see anything.”
Her small child was sleeping with her on the bed.
“I had to move my hand around in the dark in search of my child. I eventually found my child and held tight to it,” she said.
It occurred to her that her husband might still be sitting in front of the house.
“There was shooting going on all around our house, and the whole house was shaking,” she said. “I quickly ran to the children’s room to ensure they were safe, and I found that they were safe. I wanted to go running out of the room, but one of my sons told me not to do so. The window in their room was opened. I lifted the curtain of the window slightly, and outside I saw six armed Fulani herdsmen.”
They were talking in the Fulani language, which she could understand since her husband spoke it, she said.
“I moved away from the window and tried getting out, only to find that my husband was shot and was lying on the floor,” she said. “I could not move since the herdsmen were still in our house. I hid myself in a corner and watched as they carried my husband. Two of them carried his legs, while another two carried him from the chest up. One of them had a torchlight which was switched on to show them the way out of our house.”
They took the family’s goat as they left, she said.
“As they made their way out of our house carrying my husband with them towards a stream just behind our house, my son urged me to open the door so that we can run out to seek for help,” she said. “I opened the door, and we ran out.”
They fled to a house near their church building where other Christians also had taken refuge, and they stayed there until morning, while her 20-year-old son, Yusuf Samaila, remained in their home. When the herdsmen returned to their house that night, she said, one entered a room where Yusuf Samaila was but could not see him in the dark.
Another herdsman outside ordered the one inside to shoot at anything in the room, but he replied that he couldn’t see anyone in the room and walked out, she said.
“The herdsman outside, not satisfied, placed his gun through the window to shoot inside the room, and then my son, Yusuf, who was overhearing their discussion while hidden in a corner in the room, grabbed the barrel of the gun and used a machete to cut the hand of the man holding the gun,” Samaila said. “There was a painful cry from the herdsman, and the herdsmen immediately left without returning.”
In the morning her husband’s corpse was found near a stream behind their house, she said.
“His father, Mallam Isa, now an octogenarian, is a Muslim Fulani man who decades ago became the first Muslim Fulani man to convert from Islam to Christianity,” she said. “All his children, including my husband, became Christians like their father, and all are married to Christian women in Miango. The Isa family abandoned herding cattle and have lived here in Miango as Christian farmers.”
Faith in God
The Rev. Sunday Zibeh of the ECWA church in Nzharuvo, Miango, told Morning Star News that he and others were standing at the back of the church auditorium at about 10 p.m. on March 8 when the armed herdsmen suddenly began shooting at them.
“We ran as they pursued us and were shooting at us at the same time,” Pastor Zibeh said. “We ran to the area where the district headquarters of ECWA church is located here in Miango. The herdsmen, after a while, withdrew from pursuing us and retreated to the bush where they had emerged.”
The assailants had divided themselves into two groups, he said, one to attack the area behind the ECWA/SIM’s Kent Academy and mission guest-house, and the second to attack close to the ECWA Secondary School.
“It was after the herdsmen had retreated that I was alerted that they killed some children in one of my member’s house,” he said. “I rushed to the house to find that four children were killed in the house, and one was taken to the hospital.”
Pastor Zibeh said he was saddened by the lukewarm attitude of the Nigerian government regarding herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria.
“I feel very sad that these attacks against Christian communities have continued without end, and yet we have security agencies in this country whose duties are to protect the people,” he said. “In view this, I can only say that we only have faith in God to give us the grace to surmount these difficult times we are now facing.”
All they can do is pray, he said.
“If all that is happening to Christians at this time is within the plans of God for us his children, then let His will be fulfilled in us, but if this is not the case, I have faith that God will raise he who will rescue us from these attacks of the herdsmen,” he said. “I plead with other Christians to please stand in the gap for us and other Christians facing persecution in northern Nigeria. I also want to plead that should there be others who are being led by the Holy Spirit to help displaced Christians in northern Nigeria, they should please do so.”
Christians are highly disappointed with the government, he added.
“Christians are being attacked and hunted by herdsmen, and nothing is being done to curtail these attacks,” he said. “The irony too is that, even military personnel brought to the affected areas are helpless as they are not able to confront the armed herdsmen for fear of the Nigerian president, who’s a Fulani man just like the herdsmen.”
The attacks coincided with the arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari to Jos on March 8 for a two-day visit. Over the next week, killings in the Basa and Bokkos areas (Miango is in the Bassa area ) followed in which herdsmen were reported to have killed at least 100 people. In turn, Fulani herdsmen reported attacks by ethnic Irigwe militia that killed five people and displaced hundreds.
“In spite of the shortcomings I see in our government in Nigeria, I believe God will rescue us from this calamity,” Pastor Zibeh said. “God alone can wipe away our tears in this part of Nigeria. As Christians, all we need do is to remain faithful to Jesus Christ, and this we can do by getting on our knees and being prayerful.”
Christians make up 51.3 percent of Nigeria’s population, while Muslims living primarily in the north and middle belt account for 45 percent.
Nigeria ranked 14th on Open Doors’ 2018 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution.
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43 Comments
6 years ago
Leftists hate Christianity and love Islam. They prove that year after year, decade after decade.
6 years ago
Reply to
Juan Martinez
right colour, wrong faith
Read Psalm 2:1-5, and that will explain a lot
6 years ago
Reply to
Mary
It does…
Psalms.2:1-5
[1] Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
[2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
[3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
[4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
[5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 years ago
Why/how is it that the moslems are always heavily armed, and the human beings aren’t? Truly, my heart goes out to those true Christian martyrs.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Because it is all intentional and part of the global jihad. i suspect the usual culprits, islamic radicals from qatar and saudi arabia,along with some islamists in nigeria are funding these herdsmen. most of the herdsmen are not wealthy enough to buy so much arms.
6 years ago
Reply to
balafama
The head of Nigeria is a Muslim, so while he symbolically “wrings his hands” in grief, the slaughter goes on, and the chicken won’t do a thing to stop it.
Mercenaries for defense of these Christians are one option available to those who have the means. Or Mahou’s suggestion posted here. It is no sin against Holy Writ to defend yourselves against an evil enemy,
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Fucken media totally ignores these atrocities. When a poor muslim has a minor incident it’s all over the news
I.m sick of the media and Muslims
When I see them I am disgusted and what them out of my country
When we tell them about there disgusting religion that is not hate speech
When we are called racist that is hate speech
One is the truth the other a lie
Ban islam, Ban mosques
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Muslims are a result of Taqiyya from Imans
If Musims want to convert to Christianity no problem
If you agree with Muhammed who Jesus sent to hell get out
There are no Muslims in heaven as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Joseph
We truly live in the information age. We have it all – newspapers, radio , TV, and now the internet. It should mean that all relevant news is readily available and honestly portrayed. The problem is that way too many people believe it is. The media, as in MSM, likes to cloak itself in nice words like integrity and ” the last line of defence ” as though there was a bond between it and the people, and apart from some occasional strays into propaganda, was for the most part, a relatively decent partner with the truth. Didn’t mean they always got it right, but the ” integrity ” helped to balance it out.
As you know, there are 5 controlling interests atop our major media outlets today and their connections are tight with the NWO guys. Everything that has happened and continues to happen in Europe, the UK and elsewhere could not come about without the press. To say they are propaganda machines of the elite is to put it mildly. These once respected and needed institutions have been completely transformed and have abandoned what principles they ever had. They were/are an integral part of our society and just as we depend upon our various forces to protect and defend our nations and communities, we looked to these people to defend the truth. These agencies now are agenda driven and disregard not only the truth but anything that doesn’t fit the agenda. In so doing, they have not just become ” fake news ” – that is more like a funny, dismissive term – they have become enemies to our freedoms, our heritage and our future. If we ever have a hope of winning, we must call traitors what they are and demand our institutions be restored. I know, might as well spit into the wind – good thing my yearly shower is coming up.
6 years ago
This is what happens with strict anti-self protection legislation. Nigeria severely restricts the legal ownership of firearms. However, most estimates place the number of “illegal” guns, in Nigeria, between 350 million and 400 million. That’s a very large number .. and most are fully automatic.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201608110295.html
Somewhat akin to Chicago.
6 years ago
The only solution is for the Christians in Nigeria to resolve the issue themselves. If they have to use sticks and stones, then that is where they will have to start. No one, least of all any international organizations, of which most if not all are either muslim, or heavily muslim influenced, will help.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Without international help, this won’t end. The root problem is the corrupt Nigerian government.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
If they want anything done they will have to do it themselves, that is the problem with the third world, it has become a street of reliant beggars.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
NO .. the entire problem, not just the root, is the moslem president. Now, be a good little girl. Go back to your room and play Make-Believe.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
His “predecessor” was a CHRISTIAN.
The current MUSLIM president is allowing the slaughter of CHRISTIANS.
The former President was Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan. He was a Christian. Fraud was involved. He contested it but it never went anywhere. Jonathan’s term as President of Nigeria ended on 29 May 2015.
Muhammadu Buhari, a MUSLIM is the current President. He fully supports Sharia Law.
ISLAM, as always is the ROOT problem
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
His “predecessor” was a CHRISTIAN.
I am aware of that. He embezzled nearly $2 billion that should have gone to fight Boko Haram. Multiple countries are seeking to try him.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Poor little aemoriera1981. Isn’t your mommy waiting to watch you play “make believe”?
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
How come the Nigerian government has done F*CK ALL to save the Nigerian Christians under your mohammedan Nigerian president?
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
If it’s merely the government (and not the teachings of Islam themselves) then why is there a GLOBAL Jihad waging war against all infidels?
Every day we read (right here on this site and Jihad Watch) this is a common and universal assault upon humanity itself by one group of people alone; the followers of Islam.
No, sir, people do what they are taught, encouraged and required to do. Therefore, Islam itself is ultimately responsible as the root cause of the barbarity.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Wrong.
The former President was Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan. He was a Christian. Fraud was involved. He contested it but it never went anywhere. Jonathan’s term as President of Nigeria ended on 29 May 2015.
Muhammadu Buhari, a MUSLIM is the current President. He fully supports Sharia Law.
ISLAM, as always it the ROOT problem.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Seriously, they need to have well-armed self-defense groups or something like that.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
They should have weapons themselves in their home, 2nd Amendment style. Be their own defense.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Actually this week, some of the communities affected issued an ultimatum to the fulani herdsmen to vacate their land by april 15th and if they don’t whatever happens will be on their heads.They do try to fight back sometimes, but the govt restrains them by making all sorts of promises like better police protection, passing an anti grazing law etc but the govt does not back up these promises with necessary action.
secondly as christians, they do not want to be involved in violence and would rather seek peace first. They now realize it’s not going to stop ,its all orchestrated by the global islamists bid to take over the entire country, the president himself is from the same ethnicity as these herdsmen and therefore drags his foot .sad
6 years ago
These muslims are showing just how peaceful and nonviolent they really are.
muslims can not live in peace with anyone anywhere. Never have and never will.
6 years ago
It’s slow-motion genocide. Or does the slaughter of 10,000 Nigerian Christians not count as a genocide?
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
There are estimates that the number is MUCH higher than ten thousand.
6 years ago
The Muslims are using the Achilles heel of the west, ie Political Correctness as a way of invading us. The MSM are helping them, the only effective communication that we have is the internet. The greatest threat to the western Judeo-Christian world is Political Correctness, and Islam knows that Political Correctness is our Achilles heel. Remove political correctness then we can stop Islam.
6 years ago
That is so heart breaking. Christians, please say a prayer for them.
I hope they get comfort from knowing that ALL wrongs will be righted and perfect justice will be meted out for eternity. God has promised this.
Also –
Revelation 21:4
[4] And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
6 years ago
Dead muslims cannot kill anyone, Christian or otherwise. Perhaps therein lies a clue in how to deal with this problem. When the wolves are circling the lambs and the shepherd is not willing to help then it is time for some action from those who see pacifism as suicide and greater aggression as the best counter to aggression. Do read up on how muslim herdsmen turned North Africa into far greater desert than it was in Roman times as they are the primary human abetters of desertification.
6 years ago
“All they can do is pray”?
Pray. Die. Run. Fight back.
Make up your mind.
F- pisslam.
6 years ago
Can these Christians shoot back? Could they once in a while shoot first?
6 years ago
Reply to
David
They’re poor and unarmed. Boko Haram is being armed by muslum states and/or NGO’s and the government of Nigeria is run by a f’ing muslum.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
It would be great if we could run a “black program” to smuggle them in some pistols and rifles, and ammo, and establish a shooting culture among them. Granted the Muslims would steal some of the weapons but they have weapons anyway. At least it would make a fairer fight and make the Muslims appropriately scared.
