GODOGODO, Nigeria — Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed more than 40 Christians in an attack on Godogodo in northern Nigeria on Oct. 15 and left another eight dead in an assault three weeks earlier, area leaders said.
Godogodo residents said the second massacre began at 5 p.m. Thomas Akut, pastor of the local Evangelical Church Winning All Good News Church, and his family escaped harm, sleeping on the ground outside town until the following morning when they made their way to Kafanchan.
“We fled into the bushes and some of us escaped to safer areas,” he said. “The attackers were in the hundreds and were well armed. Some of them wore army uniforms, while others wore police uniforms. Some of them exchanged gunfire with the few soldiers stationed at the post office in the town, while others burned down houses of Christians.”
Solomon Musa, an attorney and president of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union, said nearly all houses in Godogodo have been burned, and the Muslim Fulani herdsmen also destroyed property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, grazing their cattle on farmers’ crops and destroying what remained.
“The savagery and barbarity of the attack is beyond belief,” Musa said. (MS)
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