Boko Haram Cut Our Church Members Throats –Bishop Reveals

The situation in Adamawa was so bad that, “Some people tried to escape through the windows and the attackers shot at them. They cut peoples’ throats.”

This was how the Catholic Bishop of Yola, Mamza Stephen, captured the calamity that befell worshippers at a Catholic church in Waga Chakawa in Adamawa State when Boko Haram insurgents struck last Sunday.


“Everybody is living in fear. There is no protection. We cannot predict where and when they are going to attack. People can’t sleep with their eyes closed,” the Bishop lamented.

Stephen told the British Broadcasting Corporation that he heard from the survivors that insurgents arrived the village on trucks and locked the church “towards the end of the service.”

According to him, the militants set off bombs, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during the four-hour siege. He said death toll in the Waga Chakawa attack was 30 and not 22 as widely reported.

Also, a newly-married couple, who said they lost everything to the latest Boko Haram attack, were among the villagers seen leaving Kawuri village on Tuesday.

The governor, who was apparently shocked at the level of destruction, directed the immediate rebuilding of the burnt mosques and market. Governor Shettima gave families that lost their loved ones N250,000 each.