For Christians in the north, the region has become worse than the Biblical lion’s den.
The fatalities are more than most media counts indicate. In Borno, Kaduna and Kogi, not less than 70 churches were destroyed, according to one media account.
A number of Christian corps members have been slaughtered in the north for things that no sane person would call offence for d sake of islam. I remember the stories of Evelyn Tagbo and Christiana Oluwasesin, two graduates who served in Gombe state. One day Evelyn was going to invigilate a class. It was so sunny that she decided to walk her way to the class passing under a tree in d compound where unknown to her some Muslim students sometimes prayed. The students went after her n almost lynched her but for d timely intervention of the school principal.
Christiana Oluwasesin, a mother of two, who found herself in similar circumstance never lived to tell her story. She was invigilating a class when a student walked into d exam hall with her bag. Christiana collected d bagand threw it outside as exam rules didn’t permit students to take in their books. Immediately the student began to cry saying her Quran has been desecrated. Christiana never knew there was a Quran in the student’s bag, but before she could even explain that, d students have descended on her and with d help of fanatics from d village stripped her naked and stabbed her todeath.
Evelyn today blogs about the activities of Boko Haram, calling for government action to root out extremism in schools and for better protection of corps members serving in the north. She remembers with nostalgia how she would have died for what she knew nothing about. How many corps members have died under similar circumstances?
One year after the Madalla tragedy, we are less safe. I am only hoping that the worst days are behind us. I wonder how d world wud av bin wit only xtains- mayb like paradise. But God is right dis way.

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