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Although the death toll has not yet been released by local authorities, images and videos posted on social networks show the massacre. Various users accuse the Fulani herdsmen, a violent majority Muslim groups, of the massacre.
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu expressed his deep sorrow over the attack on Twitter , calling it "vile and satanic".
Akeredolu said that "it is a calculated attack on the peace-loving people of the Kingdom of Owo, who have enjoyed relative peace over the years."
He further stated that he had contacted Msgr. Jude Ayodeji Arogundade, the Catholic Bishop of Ondo.
Akeredolu assured that the civil authorities "will allocate all available resources to hunt down these aggressors and make them pay."
"We will never bow to the machinations of ruthless elements in our resolve to rid our state of criminals," he said.
The report Religious Freedom in the World 2021 of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) warns that in Africa "violence is terrible", noting that "the number of people killed by armed groups in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and Mali between January and mid-April 2020 was more than double compared to the same period in 2019."
"Although Muslims and Christians are equally victims of extremist violence, with the growing Islamist radicalization, Christians tend to become more and more a specific target of terrorists who seek to eliminate the social and religious pluralism characteristic of the region," he adds.
In the first half of May it was learned that a Muslim mob stoned and burned alive the young Christian Deborah Yakubu in Sokoto (Nigeria), accused of having offended Muhammad.
In one of the most recent episodes of abduction of Catholics, two priests and two children were kidnapped by armed men at midnight on May 25 this year also in Sokoto.
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