Conflict between the armed group Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna
Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS), commonly known as Boko Haram, Nigerian security
forces, and civilian self-defense militias has ravaged Nigeria’s fragile northeast.
The conflict in the northeast attributed to JAS
has resulted in the death of an
estimated
20,000 people, displaced an estimated 1.5million
people, 880,000(58%) of this number being Children. The parties to the conflict
have subjected populations in the affected areas to forced recruitment, attacks
on schools, destruction of social
infrastructures, killings and maiming, abductions, rape, sexual violence.
2.0 Impact on Boko Haram Insurgency on the Church in
North East Nigeria: The EYN Church (church of the Brethren) provides a complete
picture of what has happened to the Church in North East Nigeria. Of the
estimated 20,000 persons killed by the sect since 2009, 8,038 including 6
Pastors, representing 53.5% of this number are EYN members, of the 1.5million
people displaced from North East Nigeria, 58%(880,000)(UNICEF 2015) of this
number are children and part of the 700, 000 EYN members displaced from the
region, of the more than 200 girls kidnapped
from Government Secondary School Chibok, 178 are EYN members.
In-addition to this is the destruction of 4 EYN Bible
Schools, 1 technical Schools, 1 comprehensive college,36 DCCs out of 50 EYN
DCCs, 278 LCCS out of 456 LCCs, 1390 Local Church branches out of 2280(Dr Samuel
Dali, EYN President, Today’s Challenge Magazine, Jan/Feb, 2015, pages 6-9).
These attacks that have been highlighted
pertains to the EYN Church who have suffered the most being the biggest
denomination in the North East excluding the several Pastors and Missionaries
killed who were from other denominations.
Culled from "NORTH EAST WATCH"
by Ben O.
