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Mark Lipdo presented a paper entitled 'Supremacists' Ideology:  A Threat to Nigeria's co-existence'  to a seminar organised by the Alumni of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, near Jos.

 

The seminar drew together religious and community leaders, government officials and Joint Security forces.

 

 

The paper traces the history of unrest in Nigeria, and how this has been exploited by a fiercely intolerant Islamist agenda which Uthman Dan Fodio's jihad set out to achieve, and which is manipulating Hausa territorial claims for its own ends. 

 

Hausa Muslims in Jos North hold a strong perception of claims on ownership of certain areas in Jos North which have been strongly resisted by the native owners of these areas.  Boundary disputes for Jos North and Wase Central have been manipulated in such a way as to deceive agencies such as Human Rights Watch, so that foreign media seek to present Plateau State as intolerant of Muslims, thereby inciting hatred from the Muslim world against Plateau State.

 

Al Qaeda are reported to have trained and offered to train more Nigerian Muslims to intimidate and advance this jihadist agenda over Plateau State and other parts of Nigeria.

 

All this in spite of the fact that many local Muslims and Christians in Jos have had enough of the terror and violence and are working together for peace and reconciliation.

 

Stefanos seeks to inform the media of the truth behind the violence.  We have presented a factual and comprehensive report on the recent violence in Jos to the UN Committee on Prevention of Genocide, the US Department of State and 11 other US organisations.