A Kaduna-based rights activist has urged both the federal and state governments in Nigeria to end the bloodbath in the country, especially in the Middle Belt region of the West African oil-rich nation.
Recent reports and viral videos showing members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), popularly identified as Shiite Muslims, protesting over the alleged killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have sparked intense debate across the country.
In a recent interview, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, a Plateau-born advocate for persecuted Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, revealed how Boko Haram insurgents attack Christian villages, burn churches, commit mass murders, and rape women.
The truth about Northern Nigeria is uncomfortable, and that is exactly why it is constantly denied. Christians are being deliberately targeted, humiliated, kidnapped, displaced, and killed, yet the same society that looks away turns around to lecture survivors about patriotism. This hypocrisy is not accidental. It is sustained by lies, propaganda, and a deliberate refusal to name ideology for what it is.
Reactions have trailed the Nigerian government’s alleged lobbying of the U.S. to change the genocidal narrative in the country.
