Nigeria: Victims of Nimbo Herdsmen Attack Buried Amid Tears

The banner bore their pictures, the victims of the early morning Fulani herdsmen attack, and hailed them as, "You are the heroes of Nimbo." The roll call: Mr. Okechukwu Ajogwu Johnson, Raphael Onyishi, Okoye Mama, Akor Cyprian, Ezema Benjamin, Ugwu Ogbu, Akogwu Utazi, Eze Sylvanus O., Anibogu Godwin. As the sirens blared and the motorcade made its way into the community from the morgue of Bishop Shanaham's Hospital, Nsukka, the disconsolate mass wailings rent the air.

Purposefully, the motorcade snaked to the St Mary's Catholic Church, where the Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Godfrey Igwebuike Onah and the Bishop Emeritus of Nsukka, Bishop Francis Okobo led over 25 priests for the open air requiem mass, in the uncompleted church.

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