A Plateau State cleric, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, has alleged that he has personally conducted over 70 mass burials for Christian victims killed in attacks across communities in the state.
Dachomo, who is the Regional Chairman of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, made the claims during an interview with British broadcaster Piers Morgan on the Piers Uncensored podcast on Tuesday.
Speaking on what he described as ongoing genocide, the cleric said the Nigerian government has repeatedly downplayed the scale of killings.
He said, “I have performed several genocide burials, more than 70 times. Imagine some of the graves have five hundred and one people killed in just one night in Dogo Nahawa in a village called Gembruk.”
Dachomo accused the Federal Government of minimising the severity of the killings allegedly carried out by Islamic extremists and bandits against Christian communities.
“The Nigerian government downplayed that one because the Islamic are controlling the government,” he alleged.
His comments come despite repeated denials by the Nigerian government that any form of Christian genocide is taking place within the country.
The clergyman went further to allege that Boko Haram was initially created by high-ranking government officials as part of a political plot to remove former President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to him, the plan was designed to force Christians out of power and install a Muslim president.
Dachomo claimed, “The background of the initial fact-finding is that many high-ranking government officials created Boko Haram to remove Goodluck Jonathan, who is a Christian.
“They caused riots in every village, and the people ran away; they were relocated. Their target was to kill the Christians because Goodluck is a Christian. That’s why Goodluck said ‘my blood is not worth it’.”
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