On 7 March, police in Nigeria’s north east Adamawa State arrested the organiser of a protest march against the continued killings of predominantly Christian farmers by mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen.
Mijah Stanley had called on ‘all pro-democracy and civil rights organisations, faith-based and community-based organisations, as well as other Nigerians’ to rally. However, the march never went ahead after police spokesperson S.P. Othman Abubakar warned they would be arrested and prosecuted.
Stanley, who was detained for two days and then released, is from the Christian-dominated Demsa Local Government Area, where at least 37 people were recently killed and another 30 injured after an attack by Fulani herdsmen on six communities.
