CNA, English agency of EWTN News, has indicated that, according to several local sources and human rights activists, 198 Christians were murdered during those days.
Father Andrew Dewan, director of communications for the Diocese of Pankshin, located in Plateau state, explained to ACN that “the fact that (the massacre) occurred on Christmas” and that the target was Christians and not Muslim inhabitants , leads to the conclusion that it is a “religious conflict.” “The goal was to inflict maximum pain and destruction on Christians,” he noted.
The priest denounced that there has been passivity on the part of the security forces, since for days there were rumors that the Fulani were planning to attack these 26 villages. “We are getting to the point where, if something drastic is not done to deal with this coming storm, the tendency for people to take the law into their own hands will be quite high,” he warned.