The mindless killings and the destruction of properties in communities in the Southern part of Kaduna state has continued unabated for too long without the authorities doing enough to stop it. 

In the last one week alone,  reports show that over 60 people were killed by rampaging fulani herdsmen who invaded communities in Kauru, Zangon Kataf, Kaura, Kajuru and Jemaa Local Governments in the Southern part of Kaduna and unleashed terror on the people .

Thousands of people have been displaced and in various refugee camps. Sadly the response of both the Kaduna state and the federal governments to these attacks have been far from satisfactory, with the people in perpertual fear of fresh attacks. 

The unbecoming justification of the attacks as repraisal statements by the Federal and State agencies can only embolden the attackers to continue to unleash mayhem on the people. 

NOSCEF condemns these massacres and calls on the State and Federal Governments to heed the cries of the people. 

The security situation across the country has continued to deteriorate as criminals terrorise  Nigerians in their homes and on the highways.  

NOSCEF wish to again reiterate its call  on President Muhammadu Buhari, to rijig the nation’s security architecture to effectively tackle the insecurity in the country. 

We are deeply saddened that while the the Service  Chiefs, who have failed in their duty to secure the nation, were reporting ‘wonderful successes’ in their North West campaign against banditry to the President, Christian communities were being attacked and killed in Southern Kaduna, as if Southern Kaduna are not part of the North West. 

Again, a few days back, the Chief of Army Staff, was reporting ‘another successful outing’ in the nation, positing that farmers can now go to their farms unhindered by herdsmen attacks and banditry,  when there was intensified attacks against Christian communities in the same Southern Kaduna. 

If the Service Chiefs are engaged to primarily protect all citizens of the country, then they have clearly 

failed and must be replaced. 

The National Assembly, representatives of the  People, amongst several other groups has  also called for removal of the Service Chiefs. 

Nigeria is blessed with talented people in the Armed Forces, that can rescue the nation from bleeding to death in the hands of herdsmen, bandits and Boko Haram. 

There are capable people across the nation, across religious and regional divides, that will command the confidence 

of all (including the fighting force), without discrimination.  

Nigerians have become helpless and lost confidence in the ability of the current security set up to protect them. 

The President must rise to the occasion and restore hope in the  people against the growing insecurity in the land.

There can be no justification for this continual wanton destruction of lives and properties in Southern Kaduna in particular and across the nation generally. 

It is also immoral

and unacceptable for government to leave a people open to attacks by bandits and turn around to arrest  them for defending their own lives, that the same government has failed to protect.

NOSCEF calls  on Christians to continue to remain calm, law abiding, vigilant and prayerful. 

We may feel helpless at the situation the government has put us in, but we are not hopeless.

We will cry like Jehoshaphat: 'for is the Lord God of our fathers, not God in 

heaven and rulest not over the kingdoms of the heathen?

As we cry in our afflictions, God will hear and help us. 

Now is a move to 'cast' the minority Christians in the North off 'their possession', 'the land given them to 

inherit', but our eyes are on God'.

Sogned: 

Engr. Ejoga Inalegwu 

NOSCEF