The Catholic politician demanded that the 2022 Pentecost Sunday church massacre that left more than 50 Christians dead in Nigeria’s Ondo state also be looked into.
Speaking at a debate in the House of Lords on Jan. 11, Alton recalled meeting Dominic and Margaret Attah, survivors of the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, who visited the U.K. for ACN #RedWednesday events last year.
“Margaret’s legs were so badly damaged by the jihadist bomb that they had to be amputated,” Alton recalled. “The couple wanted to know — and so do I — why no one has been brought to justice in this culture of impunity.”
“Why is Leah Sharibu — whose case I have raised regularly in your lordships’ House and whose mother, Rebecca, I escorted to the Palace of Westminster so that she could meet members of both Houses — still in captivity, having been abducted, raped, and forcibly converted at the age of 14?” he asked.
Alton found it “absurd” that some are blaming climate change for the atrocities being meted against Christians in Nigeria.
Addressing Benyon, Alton said: “I would like him to look particularly at the situation in Nigeria and the absurd suggestion made … by a head of state [Michael D. Higgins, president of Ireland] that climate change was the cause of 40 people being murdered in a church in Ondo on Pentecost Sunday (2022).”
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