ICC Note:

Christian victims of Fulani herdsmen have no one to advocate or give them protection from the repeated attacks they are facing. The Nigerian government needs to listen to the cries of the community and tighten security in Kaduna. The Christians of Kaduna have experienced severe persecution in the hands of the Fulani herdsmen and need both local and federal government to take action.

10/18/2016 Nigeria (The Nation) – Following the incessant attacks on predominant Christians’ communities of Southern part of Kaduna State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, leading to killings of scores in the last few months, the affected people have cried out that.

Blaming both the federal and state government of abandonment and being left at the mercy of killers herdsmen, they, vowed that they may be forced to resolve to self-defence if urgent measures are not put in place to stop the killings.

Southern Kaduna people under the auspices of Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU), in a statement by its National President, Barrister Solomon Musa in Kaduna on Monday lamented that the government was treating them as if Southern Kaduna does not deserve its attention, sympathy or intervention.

According to SOKAPU, “Godogodo communities once again came under very fierce, terrifying, brutal, savage and barbarous attack by Fulani herdsmen without provocation of any nature from Saturday 15th October, 2016 to Sunday afternoon. This is despite the frantic calls for help from the beleaguered villagers to those constitutionally saddled with the task of safeguarding their citizens.