“Send the Army Away”: New Video Alleges Nigerian Soldiers Helped Fulani Terrorists Kill, Burn and Drive Christians From Their Homes

Abuja, Nigeria – October 9, 2025

A harrowing video obtained by Peoples Chronicles captures an anguished spokesperson from a Christian community in Northern Nigeria accusing elements of the Nigerian Army of abetting Fulani attackers who, he says, killed seven people, set homes ablaze, and chased families from their ancestral lands.

In a speech delivered at the scene to the commissioner of police, the spokesperson pleads that the government remove the soldiers from the area rather than leave them in place “helping Fulani terrorists to kill us.” Witnesses in the footage display what was described as army-grade ammunition recovered after the raid; community members say their own youths, armed only with local weapons to fend off raids, are routinely targeted by the Nigerian soldiers while the armed Fulani terrorists operate with impunity.

These are not anonymous accusations but live testimony recorded immediately after the assault, and it has reignited long-standing charges that security forces in some theatres have, at best, failed to protect civilians and, at worst, worked at cross-purposes with armed groups.

The spokesperson’s account lays bare a recurring pattern the region’s victims and rights monitors have documented: attackers arrive in convoys, burn homes, and leave survivors to count dead and salvage wreckage, while soldiers either remain passive or, victims allege, actively hinder local defenders

“What actually pains us most is when our youths stand to defend… the security personnel are fighting us,” the spokesperson says on camera, describing how injured community members were admitted to hospital with wounds he attributes to soldiers’ bullets.

Human-rights organisations and local leaders have repeatedly flagged similar scenes across the country, arguing that selective enforcement, lack of pursuit of known camps, and instances of apparent collusion have worsened community vulnerability.

Amnesty International and other observers have documented patterns of unlawful killings, arson and displacement in the South East that mirror the anguish in the video.

The political and moral stakes of the video are stark. The spokesperson demanded amid applause from an assembled crowd that the commissioner “clear them away” if the security architecture will not protect civilians. He accused soldiers of escorting attackers off the scene after the rampage, even loading the terrorists onto their Hilux trucks and returning them to nearby camps.

What cannot be ignored is how the footage and testimony feed a broader, well-documented crisis of trust between communities and the state’s security apparatus. Credible reporting and regional watchdogs have repeatedly warned that when citizens cannot rely on uniformed forces for protection, cycles of reprisals, vigilantism and mass displacement accelerate, exactly what the spokesman in this clip fears most.

The video and the community’s demands place the federal government at a crossroads: it can launch an immediate, transparent investigation into the allegations and secure the displaced, or it can allow impunity to deepen the wound of a people who say they have already been abandoned.

Peoples Chronicles is calling for independent investigators, national human-rights bodies, the National Human Rights Commission, and respected international monitors to be given unfettered access to the site, custody chains and hospital records so that the assertions captured on camera can be tested in public.

For communities still counting the dead, the immediate priority is not debate over motive but action: protection, medical care, and a credible inquiry that can either corroborate or refute the devastating claim on the record, that soldiers present during the attack stood aside while Fulani terrorists burned houses and slaughtered neighbours.