There has been yet more abductions of Christian schoolchildren in Nigeria. In Kaduna State seven schoolgirls and their teacher were taken away by Muslim militants allegedly from the Fulani herdsmen group. The armed group of Islamic savages engaged in sporadic shooting during the raid and killed one man, a new father, in the process.
Here’s how this was reported by a Christian site called Keep the Faith (h/t ROP).
A group of schoolgirls and their female teacher have been kidnapped by Islamist terrorists in a chilling echo of the Chibok abduction of nearly 300 girls by Boko Haram which sparked worldwide protests six years ago.
The latest outrage took place as the pupils were sitting their exams at a school in Kaduna state, northwest Nigeria. The gunmen rode into the village on motorcycles, shooting sporadically and abducted seven students, a female teacher, Christiana Madugu, and some villagers.
Suspected Fulani militia – responsible for multiple atrocities in the Central Belt of Nigeria – killed a young man, Benjamin Auta, a new dad, whose house is close to the school and also burnt down the community’s Baptist church.
The savage attack earlier this week took place at Prince Academy School in the morning where the pupils had gathered to sit the Junior School Certificate Examination in Damba-Kasanya village in Chikun local government area.
Apart from being yet another example of the tragic and disgusting jihad that militant Islamic groups have subjected the citizens of various African nations to, this case also has a British angle.
One of the NGO’s that are monitoring the problems of Islamic targetting of Christians in Nigeria is a London based one called PSJ UK. This is a development charity that is trying to get world leaders to put pressure on the Nigerian government to improve security.
This NGO has made specific calls to action of former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown who is currently the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education. They are pressing Gordon Brown to speak out against the ongoing problem of sectarian and jihad attacks in Nigeria as the actions of the Jihadists is putting the UN’s ‘Global Education for All’ project in peril.
It does not appear that Gordon Brown has made any statement about the situation in Nigeria. This lack of involvement by Brown to me is pretty shameful bearing in mind that the suffering that the jihadis are putting Nigerians through is extreme and also that Nigeria is a member of the Commonwealth. It appears that Brown is failing Nigerian Christians just as he failed Britons when he was PM.
