{"id":22527,"date":"2017-05-04T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=22527"},"modified":"2017-05-05T07:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T07:35:35","slug":"nigeria-government-complicit-supply-arms-islamists-acn-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/05\/04\/nigeria-government-complicit-supply-arms-islamists-acn-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA  Is government complicit in the supply of arms to Islamists? &#8211; ACN UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NIGERIA\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Is government complicit in the supply of arms to Islamists? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Bishop accuses authorities of inaction in face of \u201cwave of terror\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Bishop has accused the authorities in Nigeria of suspected supply of arms to an Islamist terrorist network who he claims have infiltrated federal and state governments. Bishop Joseph Bagobiri of Kafanchan, Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, said he believed that the government has done little or nothing to stem \u201ca wave of terror\u201d by Islamist Fulani herdsmen against Christians and others which he estimates has claimed the lives of 1,000 people within the last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ACN-20131211-03579-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ACN-20131211-03579-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ACN-20131211-03579-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ACN-20131211-03579-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ACN-20131211-03579-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ACN-20131211-03579-580x870.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ACN-20131211-03579-860x1290.jpg 860w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ACN-20131211-03579-1160x1740.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>His comments come after an attack on worshippers gathering for an Easter Vigil service outside a church in Asso village, near Kaduna, who were set upon by Islamist Fulani herdsmen in an incident on 15<sup>th<\/sup> April that claimed 12 lives \u2013 10 of whom were Catholics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Describing the Fulani extremists as a \u201csister organisation\u201d to terror group Boko Haram, Bishop Bagobiri gave an exclusive message to Aid to the Church in Need, the Catholic charity for persecuted Christians, stating that, in spite of the many sightings of the Easter Vigil attackers, no arrests had been made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said: \u201cGiven the sophisticated nature of the weapons used in the [Islamists\u2019] operations, it is suspected that their kin in government and the military are able to supply these arms to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFulanis are in charge of customs, immigration and ministry of internal affairs in Nigeria today. Therefore it is easy to bring dangerous weapons through our borders with no one to prevent this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWhen [the] weapons are discovered, they are often turned over to the police and other security agencies and nothing will be heard about such weapons again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAgain, government at both the state and federal level is headed by Fulanis and they seem to be more sympathetic to the aggressors and killers than to the vulnerable victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bishop Bagobiri\u2019s comments to ACN follow a homily, given at the funeral of some of the victims of 15<sup>th<\/sup> April Easter Vigil atrocity. He spoke out about the impact of international extremism in Nigeria and elsewhere: \u201cThe Fulani Herdsmen terrorists and their sister terrorist organisations are operating in the world today\u2026The jihadists established themselves\u2026 through the use of force that often goes with mass murder of innocent and vulnerable persons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Of the Christians killed as well as those displaced in Nigeria, he said: \u201cThis is exactly what the Fulani jihadists are doing today in southern Kaduna, the middle belt region and now with incursions into both the south-east and south-west of Nigeria.\u201d He said: \u201cThe number of deaths seems to be rising every day with mass graves littered all around us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The bishop noted that the Fulani terrorists\u2019 strategy and resources used in the latest attack included a getaway vehicle and \u201csophisticated weapons\u201d to kill Christians gathering to pray. In the homily, he said: \u201cWe can see that there is a well hatched and heavily funded programme of systematic elimination.\u201d His sermon called on the government to reverse the Islamists\u2019 alleged gerrymandering which the bishop claims is a vote-rigging policy foisted on the people to exclude Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said: \u201cthe delineation of constituencies and siting of polling units which was arbitrarily and fraudulently carried out in the past to ensure rigging from the source in favour of one section and religion in Kaduna state must be revisited and corrected using both the geographical and numeric data that were ignored.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bishop Bagobiri called the \u201cFulani Herdsman Terrorists\u2026the third deadliest terrorist organisation in the world today.\u201d Appealing for prayers for peace and the attacked Christians, the bishop also asks the charity for support, he said: \u201cPlease find a way to draw the world\u2019s attention to this menace of the Fulani Herdsmen terrorist activities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Aid to the Church in Need<\/em><\/span><\/strong> is helping persecuted Christians in Nigeria \u2013 supporting the victims of atrocities, providing Mass stipends for poor and persecuted priests, helping with repairs to church buildings and vehicles for clergy ministering in remote regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Murcadha O&#8217;Flaherty and John Pontifex \u2013 ACN UK<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGERIA\u00a0 Is government complicit in the supply of arms to Islamists? Bishop accuses authorities of inaction in face of \u201cwave of terror\u201d &nbsp; A Bishop has accused the authorities in Nigeria of suspected supply of arms to an Islamist terrorist network who he claims have infiltrated federal and state governments. 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