By Today’s Challenge Magazine
When Silence Becomes Complicity, Truth Must Roar.
In a nation reeling from fear, bloodshed, and betrayal, where headlines echo daily horrors-kidnappings, killings, and communities erased overnight—one voice refuses to look away.
Jonathan Ishaku, acclaimed essayist and one of Nigeria’s most courageous truth-tellers, returns with his most incendiary and urgent book yet:
The Butcher of Kaduna and the Rise of State-Backed Violence.
This isn’t just a book. It’s a reckoning.
From the ashes of once-thriving villages to the halls of power where silence enables slaughter, Ishaku pulls back the curtain on the chilling realities behind Nigeria’s descent into chaos. With unmatched clarity and moral force, he lays bare how political actors, under the cover of state legitimacy, have turned violence into governance—with Kaduna State as ground zero.
In a time when fear silences many, Ishaku names names.
He exposes the politicization of security under Buhari, the rise of emboldened ethnic militias like Miyetti Allah, and the transformation of the North West into a graveyard of governance.
He documents the deadly impunity of Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s regime and dissects the cynical calculus that turns sectarian hatred into policy.
This book honours the fallen, amplifies the silenced, and summons the living to a higher cause: resistance, reform, and truth.
Why Now?
Because Nigeria is at a breaking point. Because too many have died in the shadows. Because state-backed violence is no longer a rumour—it is reality. Because El-Rufai’s Kaduna isn’t an anomaly, it is a warning.
For every Nigerian seeking to understand the roots of our collective trauma—this is your map.
For every patriot tired of lies dressed as leadership—this is your mirror. For every voice yearning for justice—this is your call to arms.
“The Butcher of Kaduna” is more than an exposé. It is a bold, necessary intervention in Nigeria’s fight for its soul.
Pre-order now. Speak up. Stand firm. The time for silence is over.