You cannot believe that in this Twenty first century that there are communities, in the center of Nigeria, right in the Federal Capital territory that still kill twins, albinos, and children that first developed the upper tooth. They also bury sometimes, alive children whom their mothers died while giving birth to them. They place them on their mother’s chest and bury them together.
These communities claim that these children are spirit children. That, it is by mistake they enter the world of the living, therefore it behoves them to send them immediately back to where they came from. If this is not done, the spirits will be offended and punish them with different sorts of natural disasters including failing of their harvest, flood, locust invasion, sicknesses and deaths.
They take these children to the evil forest and leave them there to die.
Now, there are missionaries who enter into the evil forest in the night to rescue these children. Of course the natives do not take kindly to this as these missionaries they insist are interfering with their traditional lives and values and also their actions are calculated to bring down the wrath of the gods on the natives. So these missionaries enter these communities to the risk of lives and limbs. Some of them are yet to be accounted for..
Yet they continue entering these dangerous pagan communities to minister and evangelise them and rescue these endangered children. Some of the women have converted. Some secretly, while some have become quite overt about it. Recently some men did.
I was taken to a place where the children that are rescued are kept. So also are the children and wards of the missionaries.
My mission bought and donated some food stuff, children necessities and foot wears to these Christians.
The African Child will endeavour to collect materials to make a documentary on this issue. We will do our very best to give this a great amount of publicity and bring the information of the plight of these children and the missionaries to the greater world.
We have titled this project of the Children of the Kuje forest, TINE-TAB.
We will try and raise fund to sustain the children, the Christians taking care of the Children and wards of the missionaries and also the need of the missionaries in the forests.
They need medical care
The children need to be taken care of, in terms of personnel and material.
The older children of school age, need to go to school (School built in the premises or totally outside the danger area)
They need electricity in a country where electricity is not reliable. The effect of the heat on these more than a hundred children, especially the very little ones, even below one week as they scream in agony is simply heart rending. The need therefore for adequate accommodation cannot be over emphasized.
Of course they need to eat.
There are humanitarian groups who are helping out, however, the work is plenty but the help is not yet enough, as the number of children continue growing.
With your help therefore we aspire to achieve this by …
Doing a detailed documentary of this evil exercise. We will interview some of the participants in this, including the missionaries, some of the expressive children, Government officials, NGOs that have made contact with these people. We will try our best to do some shooting in the villages of these Kuje communities at night or possibly day shootings in the forests.
We will do an exhibition titled Tina-tab in the Abuja Nigeria zone. This is so as to attract more international and national attention to this despicable and macabre act.
Of course all electronic medium available to us will be utilized for this global publicity, so that this act will be stopped and the victims plus the dependants of the martyrs cartered for.
We will sincerely appreciate any kind of help from your organization or person. But if it is not in your itinerary, it is all right. I am sure that our God who provides for sacrifice will provide the needs. He is still the rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.
A long text. My apologies, but it is how I feel. I will be grateful if you can reply.
God bless us all.
Chris Dahi
African Child Belgium.
The interesting aspect of this is some of the missionaries willing to go into these pagan communities and evangelize are the Internally Displaced Persons. Victims of the Boko Haram terrorists. These are former non-believers, who have had encounters with the Lord Jesus, and are zealous and extremely desirous to share the joy of their experience. Some of these are those who saw their kindred slaughtered for refusing to deny Jesus, yet they are on fire to go into the mission field.
For those of us in our supposed comfort zones, our Christian faith received a jolt in the presence of these people. One sincerely feels in their presence like an unbeliever. Their level of faith is something that is worthy to behold.
