Pastor Abel Damina has revealed how religious riots in Northern Nigeria force everyone around to shout Allahu Akbar to avoid getting killed brutally.
He stated that those engaged in the religious riots often wield machetes and other dangerous weapons in their attacks, perpetrated mostly against Christians.
Damina said this in a vidoe on social media while slamming those playing down on the narrative of a Christian genocide ongoing in Nigeria.
He said, “What about the Metacine situation? The Metacine was a sect of the Islamic religion that went around burning and destroying and killing Christians. This was back in the 80s, before there was anything like farmers and herders clashes. Fast forward to the year 2000, where over 200 people were killed n Kaduna.
What about the over 200 people who were killed because of Miss World in November 2002? All of them were not a part of the Miss World. They were just on their own. Something happened somewhere else and the became victims of it.
Lives were killed, houses were destroyed. And whenever they are carrying out this charade, they’ll be shouting ‘Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar’, while carrying their matchetes, carry whatever they have and they will move in their numbers, and anybody in their way not chanting what they are chanting will become a victim.
“I can go on and on. A few years ago, I was preaching in Kaduna for a great man of God, and I only succeeded in preaching in Sunday morning service. After the service, the next morning, while we were preparing for service on Monday, the next thing I was hearing is that the whole Kaduna is on fire.
Please, stay indoors, they are burning churches and they are killing everybody. That is how we were stuck in a hotel. Even in a hotel, we were not sure of ourselves because they were going from hotel to hotel, killing people that were not chanting Allahu Akbar. Somehow, God saved our souls.
After about four days, we were able to leave Kaduna. But unfortunately, a friend of mine, a pastor, Reverend NorthCourt Andrew, God bless his memory, was caught in the midst of this as he was escaping for his life. They caught him because he was wearing the collar of a bishop. They hacked him to death, dug the ground and buried him there and put a cross there. It is that wooden cross that made people know that there was a corpse there.
“These are real life situations. So, for somebody to sit down in the comfort of somewhere in the South and say there ‘s nothing like such in Northern Nigera… My brother, you have not been a part of it. We have been part of the fire. There was a time these Muslim boys were all over the place in my shcool and they were shouting Allahu Akbar and they were looking for me.
I had to escape that night. My saving grace was a female hostel and I slept under the bed. By the next day, I left town. For what? I did nothing. No provocation. Just because I am preaching the Gospel. And of course, some of them believe that ocne you are not of the Islamic faith, you are an infidel.
They believe that if you kill an infidel, you will sleep with seven virgins. You know, all of these kind of indoctrinations that pushes violence at the slightest provocation. Whether it has to do with people or not, they just get on the streets.”