Islamists Storm Kaduna Baptist Church Kill Two, Abduct Several Members – Adesanya-Davies laments again

A university Don, Professor Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies who sometimes in July decried the continuous abduction of students in Nigeria yet laments. Prof Funmilayo who was the Presidential candidate of Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA) in the 2019 election particularly had condemned the abduction of Bethel Baptist Church High School students, Kaduna – a boarding school located at the outskirts of Kaduna, yet most of these students are still at large today.

On 09 July, 2021, the ex-Presidential candidate stated that “as a Baptist born and bred woman, I’m yet to come to terms with this ugly heart-breaking news”. Security Monitor learns that the bandits stormed the school around 1:00 am in the early hours of Monday 5th July, 2021. It was gathered that a few hours after the suspected bandits abducted nurses and babies in Kaduna, the bandits also stormed Bethel Secondary School, Maramara Chickun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and kidnapped scores of students.

Today, November 1, 2021, Adesanya-Davies laments again as “at least two worshippers have been killed and many abducted after bandits stormed the Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Chikun LGA of Kaduna state on Sunday according to CityMirrorNews. The tragic incident happened during their Sunday service on October 31. The Islamists bandits surrounded the church before they started shooting sporadically.”

“Ishaya Jangado, the president of the Kaduna Baptist Convention, who confirmed the attack to TheCable, said an unspecified number of its worshippers were also abducted during the attack. The incident occurred this morning but we don’t know the exact number of people that were kidnapped yet” he said.

Reacting, Joseph Hayab, chairman of the Kaduna state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), described the attack as “another sad story of how deteriorating our insecurity has become. Citizens are being killed like chickens with only press statements as consolation. These evil people have troubled us for too long. I condole the families of the Baptist denomination and Kaduna Christians for this loss and urge our security agencies to separate war against enemies of Nigerians from politics. No one knows who will be the next target.” he added.

Chikun LGA is one of the areas where telecommunications services had been suspended by the Kaduna state government to fight banditry and kidnappings yet Islamists are still on rampage. When will Buhari and his APC government ever get us out of this mess, as if Christian are strangers in their own father land, Nigeria! May the almighty God intervene and judge in this matter, amen.