Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah, says the repeated and unending killings in Plateau State is beyond herder-farmer clashes, adding that the murderers “want their own kind of Nigeria according to their ideology”
The cleric, in a statement yesterday, charged the government to resist the agenda of the marauders and protect Nigerians.
The cleric condemned the blood-curling simultaneous attacks by assailants on communities in the Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State on Christmas eve.
The attacks have so far claimed over 200 lives with hundreds of houses and farmlands burnt.
Kukah labelled the marauders as “sons of Satan” who “opted to extinguish and snatch the light of the joy of Christmas from thousands of people on the Plateau”.
“There is a method to this madness,” he said in the statement sent to Channels Tv by his spokesman, Chris Omotosho.
“The choice of location, communities, timings, the seeming hooded identities of the killers mask a fact: we may not know who they are, but someone wants something from the Middle Belt. Stretch your imagination from the emergence of the modern Nigerian state and connect the dots”.
According to the cleric, a war is being waged against Nigeria by the enemies of the country.
“We may pretend that we are not at war, but truly, a war is being waged against the Nigerian state and its people. God forbid, but we could snap anytime, anywhere and for any reason,” he said.
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