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#NIGERIA: Delivering medical supplies to besieged Plateau State. Bill Devlin, widowsandorphans.info

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

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#NIGERIA: Delivering medical supplies to besieged Plateau State. Bill Devlin, widowsandorphans.info
Plateau State is a north central Nigerian state. It is located near the centre of Nigeria and includes a range of hills surrounding the Jos Plateau.[6] Plateau State is described as "The Home of Peace and Tourism".[7] The state has a population of around 4.7 million people.[8] Its capital city is Jos.

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0:00.0

This is CBS, I am the world. I'm John Bachelor to Northwestern Nigeria, Plateau State.

0:12.0

My colleague Bill Devlin,

0:14.1

Pastor Bill Devlin of Widows and Orphans.

0:16.6

Info, is traveling to Plato State as he has before

0:21.4

on a mission of philanthropy. The people of Plato State are at risk, severe risk.

0:27.6

They are Christians in this area. Bill is in the village of Joss, the capital of Plateau State.

0:35.0

The Fulani herders who are Islamic, but that isn't the difficulty.

0:41.0

They're jihadist Islamic Islamic have routinely attacked the Christian churches of

0:46.1

Plateau State. Bill and I talked some two years ago or so when he was there to help rebuild

0:52.2

a Christian church that had been burned down.

0:55.0

A terror raid. Now he's there to help the governor build a hospital or supply a hospital.

1:01.0

Bill, it's a pleasure to speak to you again. Thank you very much. a the threat to your caravan as you as you prepare to exit Plateau State.

1:16.0

Good evening to you.

1:17.0

Good evening, John, and thank you and God bless you.

1:20.0

Yeah, the risk is great and that's why there aren't many foreigners here and it's four

1:27.5

hours north of the capital of Nigeria, Abuja. And I've been here many, many many times this is my 14th journey to Nigeria in the last

1:36.7

three and a half years and the risk is not only as you stated is not only from the Muslim jihadists who are from the Fulani tribe and they are always on the war path and the narrative that we attempt to say to our US government is that it's Muslim on

1:56.0

Christian crime and not only is it the jihadists and the Islamists wanting to

2:01.8

islamize Nigeria from the north all the way down to the south and Legos.

2:08.0

But it's also bandits and thugs that are on the side of the road. They make a living by stopping caravans, by stopping travelers, and taking cell phones, money, computers, whatever they can take that's a value.

2:26.6

But give thanks, we give thanks to God that we've been protected these last 14 trips

2:31.9

and have not run into any thugs or bandits.

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