JOS, Nigeria, October 29, 2018 (Morning Star News) – The execution last week of a revered tribal leader of a majority-Christian area in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria – after a large ransom was paid to his kidnappers – was an extension of Islamic extremist violence earlier this month, sources said.
The body of Raphael Maiwada Galadima, a Catholic who was highly esteemed as the traditional ruler of an ethnic Adara chiefdom in southern Kaduna state, was found early Friday morning (Oct. 26). Officials said he was likely killed the previous night.
Kidnapped on Oct. 19 along with his wife in an attack that killed four members of his security escort, Galadima at the time of the abduction was returning to his palace in Kachia after having accompanied the state governor on a visit to the site of the Oct. 18 Islamist attack that killed dozens of Christians in the market area of Kasuwan Magani.
“This incident is overwhelming to our people, as it is coming a few days after the attack on Christians in Kasuwan Magani,” Awemi Dio Maisamari, president of the Adara Development Association, told Morning Star News. “We believe that the killing of our leader has a link to the attack on the Christian community here.”
While the kidnappers have not been identified, area Christians believe that after the market attack, Muslim extremists saw…
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