Nigeria: 15 more Christians killed in Plateau state – but new governor gives message of hope
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – While Fulani jihadists in Nigeria ignored a government curfew and murdered 15 more Christians in Plateau state this week, the region’s recently inaugurated governor Barr. Caleb Mutfwang gave the grieving community a remarkable message of faith and hope, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Together with Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa, Fulani jihadist herdsmen have murdered well over 50,000 Christians in Nigeria since 2009.
The 15 Christians who were slain this week were from the Bwai Village of Mangu in north-central Nigeria, ICC reports. The attacks happened despite a curfew declared by County Chairman Markus Artu beginning Sunday.
“The Fulani continue killing daily,” a survivor of the attacks told an International Christian Concern (ICC) staffer on Wednesday. “Another 15 people were killed last night, two days after the curfew was declared in Bwai village.”
Breaking with chronic government inaction and indifference to the plight of Christians in Nigeria, Plateau’s new governor Barr. Caleb Mutfwang said in a remarkable statement of encouragement during a visit to the area: “I have asked God to strengthen my own heart. This magnitude of madness and carnage has never happened in the Mangu Local Government Area. There have been isolated and sporadic incidents, and you begin to ask why and why now. But we have come to encourage you as leaders of our people to know that God is on the throne.”
“What has happened is a terrible setback and depressing; that these people that we have lost in a very callous manner with several others that their death will not be in vain,” Mutfwang added. “We should be encouraged that by the grace of God, help is on our way.”
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