Nigeria outspoken clergyman Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo and indigenous youth groups in Plateau State Nigeria have declared that a systematic genocide against Christians is being executed across northern and Middle Belt Nigeria, condemning the world’s silence and demanding urgent global action.
He made it known to journalist at a press conference in Jos the Plateau State Capital on December 31, 2025, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, who has personally lost his family and congregants to the violence, stated unequivocally: “This is not an allegation. It is a documented ongoing campaign of religious extermination. While the world watches, our people are being slaughtered for their faith in Jesus Christ.”
Presenting gruesome photographs, community death registries, and satellite imagery of destroyed villages, the coalition detailed a horrifying pattern: targeted massacres in Christian-majority villages, the assassination of pastors, the burning of churches, and the systematic occupation and land grabbing of ancestral lands by armed militias. “They do not just kill us. They erase us—renaming our towns, demolishing our altars, and driving the survivors into squalid camps,” Dachomo stated.
The coalition forcefully rejected the Nigerian government’s narrative of “clashes” or “farmer-herder conflict,” labeling it a deliberate cover-up for what they term “religious cleansing.” They accused state security forces of complicity through inaction, and the judiciary of persecuting victims while freeing perpetrators.
“A Christian farmer defends his family from attack and is imprisoned. A militia invades a village, murders scores, and faces no consequence. This is not a failure of law; it is a policy of persecution,” Rev. Dachomo declared, citing the controversial case of pardoned farmer Sunday Jackson as a mere symptom of a vast injustice.
The data presented was stark: hundreds of Christians killed in coordinated attacks within recent months in Plateau State alone, alongside the wholesale destruction of schools, clinics, and places of worship. The displacement, they argued, is permanent, with stolen lands being redistributed to aggressors.
In a controversial and urgent appeal, the coalition bypassed the Nigerian government entirely, calling for:
· The immediate recognition by the UN and international bodies of the genocide against Nigerian Christians.
· Direct humanitarian and security intervention by the international community.
· The establishment of an international war crimes tribunal to indict perpetrators and their enablers.
· Global sanctions against Nigerian officials and security commanders for failure to protect citizens.
“The time for diplomatic whispers is over,” the statement concluded. “If the international community continues to look away, it becomes a accomplice to genocide. We are not begging for sympathy; we are demanding action before our faith is wiped from the lands of our fathers.”
The detailed report, handed to journalists, serves as a direct challenge to global powers, framing the crisis not as a local conflict, but as a frontline in the global persecution of Christians.
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