ICC Note: 41-year old Joy Musa lost her husband and four of her six children in 2013 in a Fulani herdsmen attack. The Fulani came at night and attacked the village where Joy and her family lived, forcing them to flee for their lives. Most of them did not escape however, and were murdered by the attackers. Joy survived the attack with gunshot wounds. Now, three years later, Joy is still suffering from that day she lost her husband and children. Her injury requires costly surgeries, and she has little money. There are many others like Joy in Nigeria who have lost loved ones to Fulani attacks and are suffering because of it, grieving and unable to help themselves. The Fulani continue to carry out their violent attacks on innocent populations, particularly Christians, killing people and destroying homes and farms with little reaction from Nigerian authorities.

07/25/2016, Plateau State, Nigeria (Vanguard) – She is in serious pain and weeps uncontrollably. The pain both physical and emotional is immediate and reflective, with the latter being a flash back to what has become the darkest day in her life.

Yes, it was that fateful January 13, 2013, that she lost four grown up children and her husband, Sefiani Musa.

They were all gruesomely murdered by rampaging herdsmen.

This is the pathetic story of 41-year-old Joy also known as Aishat, an Igala by tribe, from Kogi State who got married at the age of 15 and became a mother at age 16. Joy, a resident of Dodo Na Hawa village in Plateau State was a trader dealing on ladies shoes and bags before the ugly incident.

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