{"id":3570,"date":"2025-04-22T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2025-04-22T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:00:09","slug":"killings-plateau-christians-cry-out-stage-peaceful-protest-sends-sos-to-tinubu-present-10-point-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/killings-plateau-christians-cry-out-stage-peaceful-protest-sends-sos-to-tinubu-present-10-point-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Killings: Plateau Christians Cry out, stage peaceful protest …..Sends SOS to Tinubu, present 10-point demands\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overwhelmed by incessant killings and dislodgement citizens from their ancestral homes, Plateau state Christians\u00a0 staged a peaceful protest on Easter Monday to condemn the recent spate of killings in Bokkos and Bassa Local Government Areas.<\/div>\n
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Daily Echoes Media that the peace march, which began at the Plateau Radio Television Corporation (PRTVC) Roundabout in Rayfield, culminated at the Government House in Little Rayfield, where Governor Caleb Mutfwang and his deputy, Ngo Josephine Piyo, received the protesters.<\/div>\n
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The peace procession marks the second peace walk organized by the Church on the Plateau under the joint leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Plateau State Chapter, and the Denominational Leaders Forum.<\/div>\n
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The protesters, dressed in black, red, and white color attires symbolizing mourning, a call to end the killings, and peaceful resistance\u2014marched in honor of the victims and demanded justice and immediate government intervention.<\/div>\n
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Presenting a ten points demands to President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Rev. Amos Mohzo, President of COCIN and Chairman of the Denominational Leaders Forum, co-signed by CAN Chairman Rev. Father. Polycarp Lubo and Revd. Dr. Gideon Para-Mallam, decried the \u201cunprovoked, horrific, and persistent attacks\u201d on communities in Bokkos and Mangu, which have left over 50 people dead in recent weeks.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThese are not communal clashes but calculated, premeditated acts of terror,\u201d the church leaders declared, alleging that the perpetrators\u2014suspected armed Fulani herdsmen\u2014have targeted innocent Christians in coordinated attacks, mostly at night. They criticized federal security responses and called for more decisive action.<\/div>\n
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While acknowledging President Tinubu\u2019s earlier condemnation of the attacks, the church leaders expressed disappointment over what they described as a misrepresentation of the Bassa killings in official statements. \u201cWe reject the narrative of retaliatory clashes; these are acts of terror, and the truth must not be sacrificed on the altar of political convenience,\u201d they said.<\/div>\n
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They further posit that on April 1: Pastor James Amusa was beaten and thrown into a well; 38 others were later killed in coordinated assaults on several communities.March 27: Armed men opened fire on mourners in Ruwi, killing several armless civilians. And March 7 & January 9: Several villagers, including Rev. Danjuma Lekuk, were killed in targeted attacks.<\/div>\n
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“In Bassa Irigwe land alone, between January and April 14, at least 71 people were reported killed in 19 separate attacks. One of the deadliest occurred near a military barracks, where attackers killed 51 people in just 45 minutes without security intervention.”<\/div>\n
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They urged all Nigerians to stand in unity against impunity and systemic violence, warning that the ongoing crisis on the Plateau is part of a broader threat to national peace.<\/div>\n
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In his response, Governor Mutfwang\u00a0 vowed onward transmission of the letter to president Tinubu as he pursue justice for victims of recent violent attacks in the state, declaring that Plateau shall be restored and freed from the grip of insecurity and darkness that has plagued it for nearly two decades.<\/div>\n
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While appreciating the efforts of Christian leaders and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for standing up and refusing to remain silent in the face of ongoing bloodshed. He emphasized that the time has come for every Nigerian with a conscience to rise and say \u201cenough is enough.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Our Reporter Overwhelmed by incessant killings and dislodgement citizens from their ancestral homes, Plateau state Christians\u00a0 staged a peaceful protest on Easter Monday to condemn the recent spate of killings in Bokkos and Bassa Local Government Areas. Daily Echoes Media that the peace march, which began at the Plateau Radio Television Corporation (PRTVC) Roundabout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1371,2315,825,2314,238,228],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-communique","tag-cryout","tag-demands","tag-dislodgement","tag-killings","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}