“For more than five years now, we have witnessed a deliberate and calculated attempt at wiping out and displacing major indigenous ethnic groups in the northern part of Nigeria,” said Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi of Kafanchan, in Kaduna State (map).

“Thousands of our innocent people, in several states but especially in southern Kaduna, are being massacred without any provocation by the well-known Fulani terrorists, under the watch of a democratically elected government,” he added.