An American missionary, Alex Barbir, has accused authorities in Kwara State of preventing him from rendering relief to people of the state who recently suffered terrorist attacks.

Speaking during an interview with News Central, Barbir said he was in the state to help rebuild buildings destroyed by terrorists.

He, however, stated that the governor and others told him to stay away from the state.

Barbir said, " I was in Kwara to go build Oworo Village, three weeks ago. That's why I came to Nigeria, to rebuild primarily for Muslims. The chairman, the governor and security forces said no. They said it's a little bit too risky for you right now. I haven't heard from them. But we went there. Muslims were killed. They came in the night and destroyed everything. They even just blew up a bomb recently. In Niger, Sokoto and Zamfara and all these places, you have hundreds of fighters that are coming in, killing people, burning villages, stealing and taking over everything. How is that not coordinated?"

He further spoke about his experience in Nigeria, "When I first arrive din Nigeria, I witnessed people being killed right by military checkpoints." He lamented about a village that was burnt and 60 people were killed.

"Since my time in Nigeria, I cannot come here and not experience killing. People ask, 'how was I so quick to go to the scene in Jos. When people are massacred 10 minutes from your hotel, it doesn't take long to go. I could walk to the scene" he said.

Asked if he was not afraid of being killed while visiting the scene, he said, "I drove. I had no fear because I knew that at that point Christians were there. The Muslims that came killed those people, innocently men. The scene was still tense but it was calm. I knew that there were 500 Christians sitting together. If anything were to happen, they will be unified.

"The attacks are clearly a plan. It's not just killing one or two people. When you look at Barkin Ladi, when you look at Bokkos in the villages when they attacked on Christmas Eve. if thousands of fighters that attacked in unison, countless villages at the same time. This is not just some random criminality or some just decided to take the gun that they have or a shotgun or whatever it is and go to a village and kill somebody. This is war being waged on people. If there is no war in Nigeria, what is happening? In every state, your security forces are deployed everywhere. In every state, you have people that are being killed, both Christians and Muslims. If that is not war, what is war? War is at home now in Nigeria. Forget talking about anywhere else or Iran or in the Middle East. Right now people are being massacred across Nigeria. Even in Kwara."