Christian leaders in Adamawa State have said that they are being systematically eliminated in areas earlier attacked by Boko Haram Islamists.
The Christian leaders, in a communiqué issued at the end of a one day meeting held at Bishop Shehaan Pastoral Centre in Yola, the state capital, on Tuesday, expressed displeasure with the recently alleged takeover of six local government areas of Madagali, Michika, Mubi North, Mubi South and parts of Hong by the Islamic extremists.
In the communiqué, which was read by the Archbishop of the LCCN, Most Rev. Dr. Nemuel Babba, the leaders alleged that from reports they had gathered from people in the occupied territories, the militants slaughtered Christian parents and brothers in the presence of their wives and children.
They equally said that the violent Islamic sect had destroyed existing churches in the areas.
Part of the communiqué forwarded to our Correspondent from Yola read, “We reject in strong terms insinuations from certain quarters that the insurgents are mere bunch of trigger-happy miscreants, whose intentions are to settle certain personal, political scores with the government, owing to the towering revelations of attacks mostly targeted at Christians.”
It would recalled that the leadership of the Christian umbrella body in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had earlier raised alarm of an attempt by alleged members of the sect, to eliminate Christians in the North Eastern part of Nigeria, and asked that government take urgent steps to check the menace.
