Christians are targeted in Nigeria on the Holy weekend. There have been Eight Christians were kidnapped by Fulani Militants on Good Friday in Jos, Plateau State. After paying the ransom, four were released. after connecting with a woman who was abducted, revealed that she was raped several times by two leaders of the Fulani militants. “The militant told us, after receiving the ransom money, that they got money to kill more Christians,” she said.
Such stories can be heard repeatedly in the surrounding Christian villages of Ariri, Kpachudu, La’ake as well as hundreds of others across Nigeria’s fertile Middle Belt.
Nigerian government officials deemed the attacks to have been perpetrated by “Unknown Gunmen” or so-called “Bandits.” But to locals, these men are very well known. They are Fulani Militants, who for years have been targeting Christian communities, burning their houses, and killing their family members.
Pastor Ibrahim, a Fulani Christian, was killed by Fulani militants. “Fulani Terrorists killed Pastor Ibrahim Isah early this morning on 16 April at his house, immediately after attacking Kpachudu Village,” a local media reports. Ibrahim’s wife, now a widow, said that her husband was killed because he is a Christian. She also said Fulani militants stole 38 of their cows, destroyed their house and church, and are now after her life as well as the lives of her five children.