A new report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) says 5,068 Nigerian Christians were massacred in 2022 while over 3,000 were kidnapped.
The report also said that 1,041 Christians have been killed and 707 abducted in the first 100 days of 2023 – between January 1 and April 10.
Intersociety says that Christians of Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba, Niger, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, and Kebbi states are worse affected by the ethnoreligious attacks.
According to the report, the perpetrators of the violence are the Jihadist Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and the Nigerian military.
The unveiled statistics showed that not less than 380 Christians have been slaughtered by Jihadist Fulani herdsmen between January 1 and April 10, 2023, in Benue, 102 in Kaduna, 150 in Christian parts of Niger State (Paikoro, Munya, Shiroro, Rafi, etc).
Also, 100 deaths have been recorded in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states orchestrated by Boko Haram and ISWAP, 32 deaths in Plateau, 20 in Ondo, 11 in Edo, and 10 in Delta and Kebbi states. Nine deaths have been recorded in Bauchi, 14 in Taraba, 10 in Katsina, and six in Enugu.
The report added that there are 60 deaths arising from the military killings in the South East since January 2023 while other undisclosed causes led to the death of 50 persons.
Out of the 707 Christians kidnapped within the same period, Niger State recorded more than 200 abductions while no fewer than 101 were recorded in Kaduna, Katsina, Taraba, Edo, Ogun, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kogi, Borno, Yobe, Bauchi, Enugu, Imo, Kebbi, Gombe, Bayelsa, Cross River, and Adamawa states.
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