Muslim herdsmen slaughter 13 Christians in Kaduna

A wicked group suspected to be Muslim Fulani herdsmen have reportedly gone on rampage, killing Christians in certain villages in Kaduna state.

The herdsmen launched their attacks last week, killing at about 13 Christians and scattering members of three churches. A survivor of the attacks told Morning Star News that the herdsmen killed two Christian women in Ninte village on Monday, August 1.

The source further revealed that she knew of eight Christians killed in Gada Biyu on Tuesday, August 2.

Local newspapers reported nine people were killed in Gada Biyu, with another two men killed in Akwa’a on Wednesday, August 3.

News of the massacre comes on the same day a new report was released by Media Research Center showing the US media have covered up the genocide of Christians in the Middle East.

One of hundreds of Christians displaced from the area, Martha Yohanna of Alheri Baptist Church in Gada Biyu village, told Morning Star News that the attacks on Ninte and Gada Biyu villages were carried out by Muslim Fulani herdsmen.

The Muslim herdsmen have become heavily armed in recent years. “On Aug. 1 at about noon in Ninte, the Fulani herdsmen attacked two Christian women and a man while they were on their farm,” she said.

“They cut them with machetes. A woman and her daughter in-law were killed by the Fulani herdsmen while the man is still in the hospital as I talk with you.” The next day, the Fulani herdsmen killed eight Christians in Gada Biyu, including five identified only as Friday, Akoro, Mamman, Danladi, and Jerry, she said. Her brother-in-law, 25-year-old Joseph, is missing and is presumed to have been killed by the herdsmen, Yohanna told the news service.

“It is over a week now that he has not been seen, and nothing has been heard about him,” she said.

On Wednesday, Auguat 3, after security forces had turned away the herdsmen, she said the assailants returned to Gada Biyu at about 6pm to burn down houses.

“They carried out the destruction for three hours,” Yohanna said. “I escaped from Gada Biyu to Gidan Waya on Monday [Aug. 1] when the Fulani came to attack the village at noon, and returned on Wednesday afternoon to retrieve some of our clothing.

By the evening of that Wednesday, the Fulani herdsmen returned to my village to destroy our homes. They lit fire on some houses before policemen and soldiers were brought there to repel them.

” Stories of harrowing escapes are emerging from Nigeria, in Gada Biyu, near the Kafanchan, three Christian congregations were displaced as a result of the attack, Yohanna said. They include: Alheri Baptist Church, Sabon Rai Baptist Church and an Evangelical Church Winning All.

“The three pastors escaped from the village during the attack, and since the attack have not returned to the village,” she said.

“My pastor, the Rev Nathan Jaweson of Alheri Baptist Church, on Monday, following the killing of the two women in Ninte village, evacuated his family to Godogodo and returned to Gada Biyu.

” The pastor narrowly escaped being killed on Aug. 2 as he swam across the river at Gada Biyu. He’s now living as a refugee in Kafanchan.

The pastor of the ECWA church has fled to Godogodo, while the whereabouts of the pastor of Sabon Rai Baptist Church are unknown, Yohanna said. Because of the attacks, the three churches of Gada Biyu held no worship services on Sunday, August 7.  Alheri Baptist Church normally has about 300 members.