Father George Dogo of the Holy Family Parish in Takum has gone public with a raw, heartbreaking account of what his community is enduring, and his testimony should wake up every freedom-loving American to a human catastrophe. He says entire villages have been emptied, farms burned, and his own parish violently disrupted by armed Fulani militants who strike with ruthless frequency.
Local reporting paints a grim, methodical picture: attacks that began in September have swept across border communities like Dogon Gawa, Tor Gbengee and several Jenuwa hamlets, leaving hundreds displaced and livelihoods shredded. Farmers who have fed their families and paid taxes for generations now live in fear, hiding in makeshift camps while their fields go to waste.
Father Dogo and other clergy accuse security forces of near-total inaction — citing shortages of fuel, personnel, and political will — while the attackers use the rugged terrain around Danjuma Farm and Kashimbilla Dam as bases of operation. This isn’t accidental chaos; it’s a pattern of terror dressed up as “herder-farmer clashes,” and it’s being allowed to metastasize.
Multiple outlets now report alarming casualty and abduction figures, with dozens killed in recent weeks and many more taken or missing, according to church sources compiling names and locations. These are not faceless statistics; they are mothers, fathers, and children from Christian communities who deserve protection from their own government.
The failure of Nigeria’s security apparatus to secure these border regions is a scandal that demands accountability, not excuses about logistics and funding. When officials tell grieving families there is “no fuel” or “no personnel,” they are offering a bureaucratic shrug in the face of genocide-level violence — and conservative Americans should call that out for what it is.
The international community, and particularly Western democracies that prize religious freedom, cannot look the other way while Christian communities are hunted and uprooted. Humanity and strategic interest both call for targeted pressure: arms interdiction, intelligence support, and sanctions on officials who tolerate or enable these militias.
We owe Father Dogo and his flock more than sympathy; we owe them action and a loud moral clarity. Patriots who believe in faith, family, and the rule of law should stand with those Christians in Taraba — demand the truth be told, demand protection for the innocent, and demand that governments stop treating slaughtered towns as mere news copy.
