‘Nobody seems to care what happens in this part of the world’ said Archbishop Ben Kwashi of Jos in Northern Nigeria, the General Secretary of GAFCON, on BBC Radio News.
He said he was losing hope because 1,000 lives had been lost in the past 12 months, as nomadic Muslim Fulani Herdsmen with guns and knives had launched attacks on villages populated by Christian farmers to force the Christian communities off their land. The Federal Government of Nigeria had failed to disarm these herdsmen and it was even suggested that President Buhari, himself from the Fulani community, was supporting their land grab.
A report by the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion and Belief, released in June, noted that the Nigerian Government has failed to: 1. Protect the communities in the Middle Belt from acts of violence; 2. Investigate the crimes adequately or at all; and 3. Prosecute the perpetrators.
