The OPC has accused army and police commanders of conspiring against them. 

December 24; Police announced that they had arrested, on the previous  Monday, seven men suspected of killing the policemen at Odi. 

December 23; Moslem/Christian unrest in the north led to four churches being burned and one Moslem man being killed.

December 20; Mobs of Moslem youths in northern Nigeria have set fire to fourteen churches.