A Nigerian woman who watched Boko Haram militants kill her husband after he identified himself as a Christian will be joining a delegation today delivering a petition with over one million signatories to 10 Downing Street. The letter is calling for ‘greater protection for Christian communities in sub-Saharan Africa, justice for victims and help for survivors rebuilding their lives’.
In October 2014, Afordia and her husband were travelling by car in Adamawa State, in north-east Nigeria, when men in uniform stopped them. The couple initially mistook the men for Nigerian soldiers before armed men emerged from hiding and ordered them out of the vehicle. The men asked her husband whether he was Muslim or an infidel. He replied that he was neither, but a Christian. He was ordered to the roadside, where he knelt and began to pray. Seconds later, he was shot several times and killed.
