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HE DESERVES SOME ACCOLADES! US honours Muslim cleric, Imam Abdullahi Abubakar, who saved 300 Christians in Plateau attacks

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Remember Imam Abdullahi Abubakar, who hid 300 Christians from suspected herdsmen during attacks in  Nghar Yelwa village of Barkin Ladi local government of the Plateau state. Well, the United States has honoured him for saving the Christians from certain deaths.

The septuagenarian was recognised and honoured at an event organised by the US embassy in Jos as Nigerians were urged to emulate the cleric’s gesture.

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The Imam saved about 300 persons on June 24 when suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded about 15 communities in the Barkin Ladi LGA, killing over 200 persons.

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The people, mainly Christians, were said to be fleeing from a neighbouring village in the Barkin Ladi LGA when the Imam hid them in his house and mosque.

“I hid the women in my personal house and after that, I took the men into the mosque and hid them there,” Imam Abubakar had stated.

Aware that the Imam was hiding some Christians, the assailants caught him and demanded he released the Christians to them.

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But the cleric said deceived the bandits that all those in the mosque were Muslims and upon hearing this, the attackers left him and continued with their killing elsewhere.

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