Plateau indigene killed by Boko Haram, CAN to protest as Mubarak takes exception

Another Plateau indigene and student of the University of Maiduguri, Dalep Daciya, has been slaughtered by Boko Haram, sparking calls by Plateau indigenes for all students from the State to be withdrawn from the University of Maiduguri, Borno State and enrolled in federal institutions on the plateau.
The gruesome video of his killing showed an eight year old member of Boko Haram carrying out the execution. Daciya’s parents and loved ones were seen on television mourning his loss.
The call By Plateau indigenes comes as a journalist and public affairs commentator, Mohammed Mubarak Alabi, took exception to the tendency of the Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN) to read religious meanings to the killing of Christians by insurgent group, Boko Haram.
Alabi spoke as CAN released a line-up of events, beginning Thursday, to protest the incessant killing of Christians by terrorists and bandits in the face of seeming helplessness of security agencies.
Amidst fears that Plateau indigenes are been targeted by the terrorists, one of the members representing Plateau State in the House of Representatives, Mr. Yusuf Gagdi, lamented the killing of Daciya.
“I am devastated by the excruciating loss of this promising young man, and more pathetically, in a gruesome manner, one could not wish for his arch-enemy,” Gagdi said.
He called on governments at all levels to redouble efforts at ending Boko Haram’s militancy and other security threats in the country.
“It is most despicable that despite the resources sunk in fighting the insurgency, the nefarious activities of the insurgents fester, and more precious lives continue to perish in a wanton manner,” he noted.
Other indigenes called on the State government as a matter of urgency to pull out its indigenes from that part of the country.
This is the second student from the State in the University of Maiduguri to be abducted within three weeks. No word has been heard yet concerning Miss Lillian Daniel Gyang, a 100 Level Zoology student.
CAN announced that following the gruesome murder of the Chairman of CAN Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Rev. Lawan Andimi, the abduction and killing of many Christians recently as well as the continuous incarceration of Leah Sharibu and other prisoners of faith, it decided to organise a World Press Conference and Prayer Walk in all the states of the Federation and FCT as follows;
▪ Thursday 23rd January, 2020, CAN President Addressing a World Press Conference at the National Christian Centre Abuja by 4pm.
▪ Friday, 31st January to 2nd February, 2020: Special Fasting and Prayer for Nigeria in all churches, home and abroad for the gruesome killing of innocent Nigerians to stop and for our government to develop capacity to overcome the criminals troubling the nation.
▪ Sunday 2nd February, 2020: Special Prayer Walk by Christians in all the States of the Federation in the form of a procession to be led by States CAN Chairmen in their CAN Secretariats and pastors of churches in all churches in Nigeria. Churches should process round their area, pray for God’s permanent intervention and help from all over the world so that all of us might not be consumed one by one. It appears our government is completely overwhelmed. Brutality of Nigerians is happening unabated daily. The media should be engaged by all churches to cover this. The social media should equally be engaged to capture the prayer walk/procession for effective coverage.
CAN, in a statement by Evangelist Kwamkur Samuel Vondip, its
National Director, Legal and Public Affairs further directed all its Bloc Leaders, Zonal and States Chairmen, Leaders of Denominations and all Christians and concerned Nigerians ti support and come out en mass for the program.
“The Church is matching on and the gate of hell shall not prevail against it!” the statement added.
However Alabi said, “But Boko Haram doesn’t discriminate when killing people, they have killed many Islamic clerics, Sheikh Ja’afar in Kano, Sheikh Albany in Zaria, Chief Imams of various mosques across the North East, they even attempted to kill the late Emir of Kano, an attack which left more than 100 people dead in Kano central mosque.
“This idea of trying to mislead the Christian faithful that they are being targeted by Boko Haram is ungodly, it has political undertones, issues of national security should not be given religious or ethnic coloration as the CAN and some people try to do, they should join hands in the fight against terrorism and not create disharmony in the country, after all the Muslims also lost many of its prominent clerics in addition to the names mentioned earlier to Boko Haram, they didn’t raise false alarm that they were being targeted because of being Muslims.
“It is high time the CAN, stopped this dangerous religious politicization of killings by insurgents, either as kidnappers or Boko Haram.”
Recall that days before that attack, Boko Haram splinter group ISWAP executed 11 Nigerian Christians over Christmas 2019 and released a video on December 28 reminiscent of the 2015 video of the beheadings of 21 Christians on the Libyan coast. In both videos, the martyrs wore orange jumpsuits, their killers in black.
“This message is to the Christians in the world,” ISWAP said in the 56-second propaganda video.
Available statistics show that from 1980 to 2019, according Stefanos Foundation’s, there was a total of 1,785 attacks in 32 states in Nigeria. This was responsible for a total of 28, 878 recorded deaths. 121 Muslim riots in 19 states claimed 9,451 lives. Boko Haram terrorists responsible for 701 attacks that claimed 12, 812 lives in 15 states. 963 attacks from Fulani Herdsmen Militia in 32 states responsible for 6,615 deaths.