IMPORTANT NEW REPORT FROM JUBILEE CAMPAIGN ABOUT RECENT DEADLY ATTACKS IN NIGERIA’S KADUNA STATE

May 29, 2020 | News

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IMPORTANT NEW REPORT FROM JUBILEE CAMPAIGN ABOUT RECENT DEADLY ATTACKS IN NIGERIA’S KADUNA STATE

 

Recent Attacks in Kaduna State, Nigeria Leave At Least 23 Nigerian Christians Dead and Many More Wounded

 

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Throughout one week in mid-May 2020, numerous Adara communities of southern Kaduna State, Nigeria, were relentlessly attacked by suspected Fulani militants , leading to the gruesome and untimely deaths of at least 23 Nigerian Christians and injuries of tens of others who sustained brutal injuries from guns and machetes.

 

Gonan Rogo village was the first to be ambushed on Monday, May 11, as a group of Fulani militants surged first into the home of Jonathan Yakubu, his wife, and the couple’s three young children, all of which were brutally hacked to death before the assailants ventured to other households in the village. Interestingly, non-militant Fulani individuals and families who lived in the community vacated their homes the night before the attacks, according to the Southern Kaduna People’s Union, suggesting that they were warned about the upcoming massacre.

 

Awemi Dio Maisamari, National President of the Adara Development Association, sent a press release  listing the daily attacks and destruction from Monday to Thursday in the remote settlements of Magunguna, Idazo, Ungwan Galadima, Ungwan Guza, Etissi, Ungwan Maaji, Ungwan Dantata, Ungwan Araha 1 & 2, Ungwan Goshi, Ungwan Shaban, Ungwan Jibo, Ungwan Maijama’a, Ungwan Sako, Ungwan Maidoki and Ungwan Masaba. These are all satellite settlements of Kallah, Libere and Gefe towns. He stated, “We simply lack the words to properly describe the atmosphere of anarchy and despair that is fast taking root in our communities with women, children, the sick and the elderly fleeing with the little belongings they can salvage. Our brutalized, dehumanized, terrified and traumatized community members are reeling in pains, ever wondering why this contrived anarchy is still being condoned by the powers that be. We have since realized that the usual silence of government when most of these atrocities are being committed actually means consent. Consequently, several occupiers of high public offices have in unison spewed out rationalizations and justifications why mayhem is and must be visited on our timid people. We are therefore shocked that government has become brazen enough or descended so low as to justify terrorism, butchery and savagery of monumental proportions on such flimsy and illogical grounds.”

 

“Atmosphere of Anarchy and Despair” Recent Killings in Nigeria Leave 23 Christians Dead

 

In a series of heart-wrenching photos taken by Alheri Bawa Magaji, daughter of Nigeria Crisis Delegation member Adara Waziri Bawa Magaji and advocate for Nigerian internally displaced persons, the extent of the physical and emotional trauma experienced by the victims of the attacks is unimaginable:

 

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A picture of a baby with bandages on his head from a grazed bullet and whose parents and two siblings were killed in the attack

 

Photos provided by Alheri Bawa Magaji

 

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Above are photos of the baby’s only two surviving siblings, sister Zipporah (pictured left) and Isaiah (pictured right), both of whom are recovering from deep gashes to their arms and don’t know about their parents’ and siblings’ deaths.

Photos provided by Alheri Bawa Magaji

 

 

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This is a picture of two-week-old Salama (5 days old on the night of the attack) whose mother was brutally murdered in front of the baby’s grandmother

 

Photos provided by Alheri Bawa Magaji

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A photo of Salama’s 80-year-old grandmother who begged the attackers to kill her in exchange for her daughter-in-law’s life but whose pleas were rejected by the attackers

 

Photos provided by Alheri Bawa Magaji

 

 

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Devastating picture of 3-year-old Evelyn Magaji (left) who bravely survived a machete slash wound to the head and whose mother was killed

 

Photos provided by Alheri Bawa Magaji

 

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Another young girl named Evelyn (right) who- since the attack during which she sustained an extremely severe injury to the skull-remains in a speechless trance and experiences uncontrollable jerking limbs when she sleeps.

 

Photos provided by Alheri Bawa Magaji

 

80% of the people living in Nigeria’s IDP camps are women and children.

– Internal Displacement Monitoring Center

 

These ruthless attacks are not one-of-a-kind, there are weekly reported attacks by Fulani militants and Boko Haram and its affiliates. There are at least 2.5 million internally displaced person in Nigeria due to the violence.

 

In a report released on May 15, 2020 by Nigerian civil society organization called International Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law, it is revealed that at least 620 Nigerian Christians have been brutally murdered so far in 2020, some fear around 1000 as many go unreported, along with the countless homes, churches, and farms destroyed and decimated. Perhaps most noteworthy is that “the atrocities against Christians have gone unchecked and risen to alarming apogee with the country’s security forces and concerned political actors looking the other way or colluding with the Jihadists.”

 

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Lord David Alton

For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.

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