The European parliament, legislative branch of the European Union, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of overseeing the persecution of Christians in the Northern part of Nigeria where Sharia law is in practice.

The EU in a new report released on January 16, 2020 said over 6000 Christians had been murdered by "Fulani militants whereas in Sharia states, Christians face constant discrimination and are often considered second class citizens”.

The report further adds that, “These attacks have continued with total impunity with perpetrators rarely being held to account whereas Amnesty International report has demonstrated wilful negligence by the Nigerian security forces concerning deadly attacks against farming communities.”

The report says Buhari's poor handling of Nigeria's deteriorating situation in the North-East has worsened as non-governmental organisations ready to help are denied access by the Nigerian Government for political reasons.

The EU condemned what it described as "extermination of human beings or ethnic cleansing" while calling on the Nigerian Government to find immediate solutions to the conflict now affecting the stability of West Africa.

A report commissioned by the Foreign Office, from the Bishop of Truro, has warned that the world-wide attacks are close to genocide and urged sanctions on regimes that have committed human rights abuses.

The alarm has been sounded by Ayo Adedoyin, executive director of the International Organisation for Peace Building and Social Justice (PSJ), and Baroness Caroline Cox, chief executive of Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), who has recently returned from the region after speaking to the survivors of atrocities "as bad as it gets anywhere in the world".

Mr Adedoyin welcomed the Prime Minister's comments in which he said: "We stand with Christians everywhere, in solidarity, and will defend your right to practise your faith." Downing Street added that the Prime Minister wanted to examine how Britain could lead on the issue around the world.

But with the plight of Christians deteriorating rapidly across Nigeria and elsewhere, Mr Adedoyin said it was time for the Government to intervene by applying pressure to the Nigerian authorities to step up their efforts to combat the atrocities committed by Islamist Fulani militia and the new incarnation of Boko Haran - the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), who released a video of the Christmas Day beheadings.

Mr Adedoyin said: "We have had many fine words from the Government. But with the Fulani militia and ISWAP on the rampage across the Central Belt and the North East, we need more than words. Britain gives £320 million a year to Nigeria in aid and we should be thinking about withholding at least some of that money until the Nigerian Government takes seriously the threat to Christians, which is costing more than 1,000 lives a year and growing rapidly."

Baroness Cox has made several visits to Nigeria in recent years to witness first hand the havoc wrought by the Fulani militia, who belong to a semi-nomadic ethnic group of about 20 million people across 20 west and central African countries.

She said: "In the last four to five years growing numbers of Fulani have adopted a land-grabbing policy - motivated by this extremist belief system and equipped with sophisticated weaponry - leading to the massacre of thousands of people and permanent displacement of vulnerable rural communities.

"It is high time we made foreign aid conditional for countries, such as Nigeria, stained with Christian blood. Until President Buhari and the Nigerian government can prove they have undertaken effective measures to halt the increasingly routine slaughter of Christians in their own land, we would do well to give our money to other, more deserving governments."

Lord David Alton, a leading supporter of HART, said that ministers should study the parliamentary debate held 18 months ago. "The warnings of systematic persecution and horrific executions, abductions and an unfolding genocide have been wantonly ignored.

"These terrible executions in Nigeria will be a first test of how the UK's Foreign Office and aid programmes will be deployed to provide substance to Boris Johnson's very welcome commitment to end such barbarism."

The beheadings of the 11 Christians shown in the ISWAP video were gruesome 'revenge' for the recent killing in Syria of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. They came after terrorists in the

'Boko-Haram enclave' of the North East of Nigeria struck a Christian village, Kwaragulum near Chibok in Borno State, where over 200 school girls were kidnapped in 2014. They killed, injured and kidnapped several people and once again left another community devasted, mourning and burying their dead on Christmas Day.

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HART - www.hart-uk.org/

Buhari and his kitchen cabinet would not see this type of report. They hardly comment on such type of report.
These are signs that show us something is wrong with the brains of southerners who fail to secure their territory but interested in the Fulani endorsement for presidency.
IBB has shown us how dangerous the North could be when in power. To your tents o southerners

Buhari has succeeded in clearing all doubts about his support for terrorism.

Buhari is definitely bin support of the killings with the way he refuses to act