By Riley Gonzalez —
In his voice, there is passion and fearlessness. The North Nigerian pastor who dared Fulani militias just had a brush with death — and Muslims killed nine of his relatives.
“I cannot run away,” says Pastor Ezekiel Dachomo, the man who pleads to an unhearing world that they have pity upon the Christians of Nigeria after an estimated 100,000 who have been killed in the name of Allah.
At midnight on July 11, Fulani gunmen targeted one house, the house of Dachomo’s nephew, in the Kum village in Rim District. The broke in and demanded Dachomo, who wasn’t there. “Today you will learn a hard lesson!” they said and squeezed their triggers.
A a two-month-old baby was among the nine killed.
James Yohanna, who survived the slaughter, told TruthNigeria that he heard the attackers speaking in Fulfulde, the language of the Fulani tribe.
“This is not the first time they are attacking this community,” Dachomo said at the funeral. “This same way they killed my grandmother Ngo Martha and removed her heart (years ago). They killed my uncle Dangai and removed his tongue. And they are pressuring us, they want to make sure we leave this community.”
Meanwhile, the virtuous human rights advocates can only find “atrocities” in Gaza.
“The tragedy of Plateau is no longer an isolated security concern,” says Berom tribal leader and lawyer Solomon Dalyop. “It has become a protracted humanitarian catastrophe and a profound moral challenge to our collective conscience.
“Our communities have become theaters of bloodshed,” Daylop adds. “Our ancestral lands have been violently invaded; our villages reduced to desolation; our farms abandoned; our economic life strangulated; and thousands of our people condemned to lives of displacement, fear and uncertainty.”
Dachomo says he’s not leaving the area. He trusts in the Bible, which promises him that nothing outside of the will of God will happen. He promises to use his voice — a powerful voice like the voice of Martin Luther King Jr. — to call attention to massacre of Christians in Nigeria.
