![Abdul_Ahmad_'s tweet photo. THREAD: THE MAJOR JOS CRISES SERIES
Part 1: The 2001 Jos Crisis –
Let the Facts Speak On Friday, 7th September 2001, what started as a small dispute in Congo-Russia area of Jos quickly exploded into one of the deadliest religious/ethnic clashes in Nigeria’s history. Immediate Trigger (as documented by Human Rights Watch in their December 2001 report “Jos: A City Torn Apart”):
A Christian woman tried to cross a road blocked by Muslims who were praying on the public highway near the University of Jos. Hausa youths challenged her, tempers flared, fighting broke out. Within hours, the whole city was on fire. But make no mistake – this was not a sudden event.
Remote Causes (Human Rights Watch, page 7-10): Deep tension over “indigene” vs “settler” rights in Jos.
1. Hausa/Fulani (mostly Muslim) community feeling politically marginalized.
2. Appointment of Alhaji Mukhtari Mohammed (a Hausa Muslim) as Jos North Poverty Eradication Programme coordinator was seen by indigenous groups as another attempt to dominate them.
3. Months of open threats, hate leaflets, and inflammatory statements from both sides that the government ignored despite several warnings from NGOs.
HRW explicitly stated:
“The Nigerian government could and should have prevented mass killings in Jos in September... The violence could have been foreseen but government authorities failed to take action to prevent it.”
Death Toll & Atrocities (HRW):
At least 1,000 people killed in just 6 days (7–13 September 2001).
Hundreds of churches and mosques burnt.
People burnt alive in their homes, hacked with machetes, shot while fleeing.
Bodies littered the streets – some still burning days later.
The Justice Niki Tobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry (2001–2002) – Plateau State Government:
This is the most important official document on the crisis.
Key findings:
The crisis was planned and orchestrated.
The major remote cause was the unresolved question of who truly owns Jos – the indigene/settler dichotomy.
Justice Niki Tobi warned clearly:
“Unless the government and people of Plateau recognize and identify the ownership of Jos as recommended by the commission, there will be no end to crises in Jos in particular, and the state in general.”
According to @hrw
The Response of the Government
Response to the Violence of September 2001
The governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, came under fierce criticism for inaction and negligence before and during the crisis. In particular, he was criticized for traveling abroad just one week before the crisis, at a time when tensions had already
risen to a dangerous level. A local human rights activist told Human Rights Watch: “When the governor returned half way through the crisis, he just tried to order people
to get on with their normal activities [….] The government has been pushing the problem under the carpet. They have played down the violence including the number
of victims. They reacted after the fact and mismanaged the situation.”
As with the police, Human Rights Watch made repeated attempts to meet the governor but was told that he was not available. On the basis of the evidence described above, particularly the threats contained in correspondence addressed to the governor
himself and other material circulated in the days leading up to the violence, it is difficult to believe that the state government was not aware of the dangerous build-
up of tension. The government also appeared to ignore several calls of alarm from local human rights organizations who personally visited the office of the deputy
governor, the commissioner of police and the director of the SSS, including on September 7, the day the violence started. When they asked why the security forces
had not seen the warning signs, they were told that the warnings had been communicated to the authorities; yet no action was taken.
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THREAD: THE MAJOR JOS CRISES SERIES
Part 1: The 2001 Jos Crisis –
Let the Facts Speak On Friday, 7th September 2001, what started as a small dispute in Congo-Russia area of Jos quickly exploded into one of the deadliest religious/ethnic clashes in Nigeria’s history. Immediate Trigger (as documented by Human Rights Watch in their December 2001 report “Jos: A City Torn Apart”):
A Christian woman tried to cross a road blocked by Muslims who were praying on the public highway near the University of Jos. Hausa youths challenged her, tempers flared, fighting broke out. Within hours, the whole city was on fire. But make no mistake – this was not a sudden event.
Remote Causes (Human Rights Watch, page 7-10): Deep tension over “indigene” vs “settler” rights in Jos.
1. Hausa/Fulani (mostly Muslim) community feeling politically marginalized.
2. Appointment of Alhaji Mukhtari Mohammed (a Hausa Muslim) as Jos North Poverty Eradication Programme coordinator was seen by indigenous groups as another attempt to dominate them.
3. Months of open threats, hate leaflets, and inflammatory statements from both sides that the government ignored despite several warnings from NGOs.
HRW explicitly stated:
“The Nigerian government could and should have prevented mass killings in Jos in September... The violence could have been foreseen but government authorities failed to take action to prevent it.”
Death Toll & Atrocities (HRW):
At least 1,000 people killed in just 6 days (7–13 September 2001).
Hundreds of churches and mosques burnt.
People burnt alive in their homes, hacked with machetes, shot while fleeing.
Bodies littered the streets – some still burning days later.
The Justice Niki Tobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry (2001–2002) – Plateau State Government:
This is the most important official document on the crisis.
Key findings:
The crisis was planned and orchestrated.
The major remote cause was the unresolved question of who truly owns Jos – the indigene/settler dichotomy.
Justice Niki Tobi warned clearly:
“Unless the government and people of Plateau recognize and identify the ownership of Jos as recommended by the commission, there will be no end to crises in Jos in particular, and the state in general.”
According to @hrw
The Response of the Government
Response to the Violence of September 2001
The governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, came under fierce criticism for inaction and negligence before and during the crisis. In particular, he was criticized for traveling abroad just one week before the crisis, at a time when tensions had already
risen to a dangerous level. A local human rights activist told Human Rights Watch: “When the governor returned half way through the crisis, he just tried to order people
to get on with their normal activities [….] The government has been pushing the problem under the carpet. They have played down the violence including the number
of victims. They reacted after the fact and mismanaged the situation.”
As with the police, Human Rights Watch made repeated attempts to meet the governor but was told that he was not available. On the basis of the evidence described above, particularly the threats contained in correspondence addressed to the governor
himself and other material circulated in the days leading up to the violence, it is difficult to believe that the state government was not aware of the dangerous build-
up of tension. The government also appeared to ignore several calls of alarm from local human rights organizations who personally visited the office of the deputy
governor, the commissioner of police and the director of the SSS, including on September 7, the day the violence started. When they asked why the security forces
had not seen the warning signs, they were told that the warnings had been communicated to the authorities; yet no action was taken.
@ARISEtv @CNN @AJEnglish @POTUS @PoliceNG @channelstv
#JosCrisisSeries #PlateauTruth
![Abdul_Ahmad_'s tweet photo. THREAD: THE MAJOR JOS CRISES SERIES
Part 1: The 2001 Jos Crisis –
Let the Facts Speak On Friday, 7th September 2001, what started as a small dispute in Congo-Russia area of Jos quickly exploded into one of the deadliest religious/ethnic clashes in Nigeria’s history. Immediate Trigger (as documented by Human Rights Watch in their December 2001 report “Jos: A City Torn Apart”):
A Christian woman tried to cross a road blocked by Muslims who were praying on the public highway near the University of Jos. Hausa youths challenged her, tempers flared, fighting broke out. Within hours, the whole city was on fire. But make no mistake – this was not a sudden event.
Remote Causes (Human Rights Watch, page 7-10): Deep tension over “indigene” vs “settler” rights in Jos.
1. Hausa/Fulani (mostly Muslim) community feeling politically marginalized.
2. Appointment of Alhaji Mukhtari Mohammed (a Hausa Muslim) as Jos North Poverty Eradication Programme coordinator was seen by indigenous groups as another attempt to dominate them.
3. Months of open threats, hate leaflets, and inflammatory statements from both sides that the government ignored despite several warnings from NGOs.
HRW explicitly stated:
“The Nigerian government could and should have prevented mass killings in Jos in September... The violence could have been foreseen but government authorities failed to take action to prevent it.”
Death Toll & Atrocities (HRW):
At least 1,000 people killed in just 6 days (7–13 September 2001).
Hundreds of churches and mosques burnt.
People burnt alive in their homes, hacked with machetes, shot while fleeing.
Bodies littered the streets – some still burning days later.
The Justice Niki Tobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry (2001–2002) – Plateau State Government:
This is the most important official document on the crisis.
Key findings:
The crisis was planned and orchestrated.
The major remote cause was the unresolved question of who truly owns Jos – the indigene/settler dichotomy.
Justice Niki Tobi warned clearly:
“Unless the government and people of Plateau recognize and identify the ownership of Jos as recommended by the commission, there will be no end to crises in Jos in particular, and the state in general.”
According to @hrw
The Response of the Government
Response to the Violence of September 2001
The governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, came under fierce criticism for inaction and negligence before and during the crisis. In particular, he was criticized for traveling abroad just one week before the crisis, at a time when tensions had already
risen to a dangerous level. A local human rights activist told Human Rights Watch: “When the governor returned half way through the crisis, he just tried to order people
to get on with their normal activities [….] The government has been pushing the problem under the carpet. They have played down the violence including the number
of victims. They reacted after the fact and mismanaged the situation.”
As with the police, Human Rights Watch made repeated attempts to meet the governor but was told that he was not available. On the basis of the evidence described above, particularly the threats contained in correspondence addressed to the governor
himself and other material circulated in the days leading up to the violence, it is difficult to believe that the state government was not aware of the dangerous build-
up of tension. The government also appeared to ignore several calls of alarm from local human rights organizations who personally visited the office of the deputy
governor, the commissioner of police and the director of the SSS, including on September 7, the day the violence started. When they asked why the security forces
had not seen the warning signs, they were told that the warnings had been communicated to the authorities; yet no action was taken.
@ARISEtv @CNN @AJEnglish @POTUS @PoliceNG @channelstv
#JosCrisisSeries #PlateauTruth](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5isJKFW8AAhq3E.jpg)
@Realoilsheikh @HOLARMEEDEY1 It was a sarcastic post
There is no country that has the likes of this one in leadership positions that can ever progress.
As governor @elrufai didn't do anything against the Christians. He stopped government sponsoring pilgrimage for both Muslims Christians together.
What sort of a leader in 2026 would still be thinking about government sponsoring people for pilgrimages? Is that not a personal spiritual undertaking? Pilgrimage is an act of personal devotion between an individual and their faith. It doesn't add anything to the state that warrants its being transformed into a state sponsored enterprise sustained by scarce resources from tax payers. And in a country where over 130 million people are living in MULTI DIMENSIONAL POVERTY. Uba Sani is doing what he is doing to cover his failures and win sympathy. It is not a good leadership quality. These are things El-Rufai don't do.
You have no business being in government. No wonder you were sharing transistor radios as constituency projects as a senator.
I am a Muslim. I am a full blown Urhobo man from Delta State and this Fulani man here is my leader. If you wan cry make I give you bucket.
The National President of the Compatriots Movement for Peace and Development in Nigeria, Engr. Lawan Suleiman, has today accompanied a British journalist, David Patrick of the Daily Mail, England, on an on-the-ground fact-finding visit to Jos, Plateau State, over the long-standing Muslim–Christian conflict in the area.
As part of the visit, Engr. Lawan Suleiman and David Patrick visited the graveyard of the 604 Muslim victims of the 2008 Jos crisis, where prayers were offered in remembrance of those who lost their lives.
The delegation also paid a courtesy visit to the residence of Sheikh Sani Yahya Jingir to hear his views on the Plateau crisis.
Sheikh Jingir, who is himself a victim of the Rukuba Road attack Opposite Setilate Market, shared his experience of the violence in which over a hundred Muslims reportedly lost their lives and properties were destroyed.
Engr. Lawan Suleiman said the visit is part of sustained efforts to document facts, promote peace, and present the realities of the Plateau crisis to the international community, while calling for justice, reconciliation, and lasting peace in Plateau State and Nigeria as a whole.
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For 15 years, Christians have attacked Muslim communities in Plateau State on Eid day while they were praying in Rukuba. In this attack, countless unarmed Muslims—women, children, elders—were massacred. They had nothing but prayer mats
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@Asakemijimi Wallahi wallahi you're lying.
But I don't blame you, lying has no consequences in your 'religion'
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