Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), said on Sunday that Christian leaders in Nigeria have so far failed to speak out sufficiently and have not done enough to check the increasing waves of jihadists targeted attacks.

HURIWA spoke specifically on the attack on Sunday morning at the residence of the Catholic Bishop of Paikoro which led to the burning to death of Reverend Father Isaac Achi of St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State.

The reaction also followed the abduction on Saturday night of the Parish Priest of Saint George Catholic Church Omu Ekiti in Oye LGA of Ekiti State, Reverend Father Michael Oloinlade and the invasion and subsequent abduction of 35 worshippers at the New Life for all Church in Kankara LGA of Katsina State on Sunday morning.

HURIWA which classified these serial attacks as coordinated Jihad against Christian faith in Nigeria, expressed disappointment with the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria and the Christian Association of Nigeria for over indulging the President Muhammadu Buhari even in the face of his government’s deliberate failure to crush the terrorists who for the past seven years have specifically targeted Christians and have succeeded in destroying hundreds of Churches, kidnapping many Christians on gunpoint and killing hundreds of Christians just for exercising their fundamental freedom of religion.

HURIWA said the last year's vicious attack by ISWAP at the Catholic Church in Owo Ondo State which left over 50 worshippers dead is still fresh just as the rights group said the Christian leaders have failed to hold the President to account.

HURIWA recalled that the Police Command in Niger State North Central Nigeria, has confirmed an attack on the residence of the Catholic Bishop of Paikoro, Rev. Father Isaac Achi of St. Peters and Paul Catholic Church, in Paikoro Local Government Area of the State.

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