The warning, for which a “Fulani association” claims responsibility, is contained in a letter circulated by the office of the state police commissioner.  

“The command has already alerted its Divisions/Formations for immediate proactive action and deployment of men at churches especially during services,” the police leadership in Zamfara said in reaction to what it described as “an anonymous letter threatening to launch an attack on churches, especially churches located at the outskirt of the metropolis.”

The threatening letter was delivered to police headquarters in Gusau, the state capital, on Nov. 19.

In the document, members of the “Fulani association who are planning to launch a war against Christian religion” claimed responsibility for the “anonymous letter”.

“We want churches to be closed from now to the next three years. If they are not closed, we will start burning them,” those behind the letter threatened, and added in reference to Christians in Zamfara, “We will follow their pastors to their houses whether during raining or in the midnight and kidnap them and their family.”

They claimed responsibility for some previous attacks on Nigerians saying, “We have been harming people but we have forgotten the Christians. So, we will start from now until Christmas time. We are going to start with churches located outskirt of Gusau.”

“We are going to start kidnapping of Christians and burning of their churches located outskirt of Gusau town and we are going to do it when no one expects it to happen.”

The letter said, “We are taking this action because they (Christians) were the ones that started causing this problem; they harmed our children at Saminaka area and chased away our cows while on rearing behind Karma Hotel.”

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