Kaduna, Nigeria: 11 People, Including Pastor, Slaughtered In New Attack By Muslim Fulani Herdsmen
Written by Heartsong Live on 26th August 2020
In the latest series of attacks on Christians in Nigeria, 11 people have been killed by armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen this week within a 2 day period (Sunday to Tuesday)
The militia also burned seven houses in Unguwan Gankon village in Zangon Kataf County’s Gora Ward in southern Kaduna state. MSN quoted Luka Binniyat of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union as saying. “Wary neighbours, however, came to the rescue, and the murderers fled.”
On Sunday, Fulani herdsmen killed the Rev. Adalchi Usman, pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All in Unguwan Madaki village in Kajuru County, along with three other Christians as they were travelling.
“Pastor Adalchi Usman, 39, and a father of two was ambushed while in a commercial vehicle he had boarded with three others,” Binniyat said. “The killers came from the bush and just started shooting at the car. The driver of the vehicle, Danlami Dariya, was abducted, and at the time of releasing this statement his whereabouts were still unknown.”
Also on Sunday, the Fulani militia killed village head Dan’azumi Musa, 67; his mother, Kande Musa, 97; and his siblings Aniya Musa, 60, and Angelina Irmiya, 45, near Banikanwa area in Kachia County.
On Monday, the herdsmen killed a 48-year-old Christian farmer and father of nine, identified as Bulus Joseph, in Kajuru County.
“Bulus Joseph was murdered gruesomely on his farm at Sabon Gida Idon, along the Kaduna-Kachia road, by armed Fulani militia,” Binniyat said. “He stood up to the killers so that his wife and three children could escape, which they did. But he paid the price with his life, as he was sub-humanly butchered by the cold-blooded murderers.”
And then in the latest attack on Tuesday, a 16-year-old student, identified as Takama Paul, and another Christian, identified as 30-year-old Kefas Malachy Bobai, a father of three children, were killed
Fulani herdsmen are known to routinely attack predominantly Christian farming communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. The radicals are known for similarly targeting Christian villages like the Boko Haram terrorist group that terrorizes the northern regions of the country.
