Source: www.worthynews.com
Date: November 14, 2024
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – Nigerian Christians are pleading for help as Fulani jihadist herdsmen recently murdered 21 more Christians in Nigeria’s Benue State, one of several Nigerian states that have seen ongoing relentless Islamic violence against believers, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Twenty-one Christian farmers were murdered by Fulani herdsmen in two attacks that took place in the predominantly Christian villages of Anyiin and Ayilomo on October 30 and November 1-2 respectively in Benue state’s Logo County, MSN reports.
In a statement to MSN, Paul Adetsav, a community leader in the village of Ayilomo which lost six of its members in the Fulani attack of November 1-2, said: “The Fulani herdsmen keep attacking us almost on a daily basis, killing Christians at will and igniting fire on our houses and places of worship. Crops we planted on our farms too have been destroyed by the armed herdsmen. Hunger has become an epidemic, killing us and our children since we have nothing to eat.”
More than 400,000 members of Benue’s Christian community have been displaced due to the incessant Fulani attacks, Adetsav said.
“We beg the world to hear our desperate cry – our communities in Gaambe-Tiev, Logo Local Government, are being systematically decimated by relentless Fulani militia attacks,” area resident Adegwa Uba told MSN in a separate statement. “The bloodshed is relentless, with 21 innocent lives lost in Anyiin just last week. Our villages – Anyiin, Ayilamo, Uzer, Iorza, Mchia and Chembe have perpetually been brutally attacked by Fulani herdsmen, and children, women, and elderly are slaughtered like animals.”
“Security forces collect bodies but fail to prevent attacks or bring perpetrators to justice,” Uba said. “The government’s inaction is appalling, its silence deafening. Our political leaders seem detached, leaving us to face this horror alone.”
Since Islamic terrorism began to take hold in Nigeria in 2009, around 60,000 Christians have been murdered, and tens of thousands kidnapped.