President Donald Trump of the Untied States of America, has threatened navy motion in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’.
Trump had, on Friday, stated that Christians in Nigeria are dealing with an “existential threat,” calling on American lawmakers to research “mass slaughter”.
In reality, he named Nigeria a “nation of explicit concern” – a State Division designation for nations “engaged in extreme violations of non secular freedom.”
Reacting, President Bola Tinubu dismissed the outline of Nigeria as a nation hostile to non secular freedom, insisting that the nation stays dedicated to defending the rights of residents of all faiths.
Tinubu stated, “Non secular freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective id and shall at all times stay so. Nigeria opposes spiritual persecution and doesn’t encourage it.”
Making the threat on Saturday, Trump threatened to ship US forces into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if Africa’s most populous nation doesn’t stem what he described because the killing of Christians by Islamists.
In an explosive submit on his Reality Social platform, the Republican chief – who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize – stated he requested the Pentagon to map out a potential plan of assault, someday after warning that Christianity was “dealing with an existential threat in Nigeria”.
“If the Nigerian Authorities continues to permit the killing of Christians, the usA. will instantly cease all assist and help to Nigeria, and should very properly go into that now disgraced nation, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to fully wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who’re committing these horrible atrocities,” he stated.
“I’m hereby instructing our Division of Struggle to organize for potential motion. If we assault, will probably be quick, vicious, and candy, similar to the terrorist thugs assault our CHERISHED Christians,” he added.
He ended his submit with “WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”
Nigeria is embroiled in quite a few conflicts that specialists say have killed each Christians and Muslims with out distinction.
Trump on Friday posted, with out proof, that “hundreds of Christians are being killed (and) Radical Islamists are liable for this mass slaughter.”
Claims of Christian persecution have additionally been pushed by some in Nigeria, the place ethnic, spiritual and regional divisions have flared with lethal penalties previously and nonetheless form the nation’s trendy politics.
Nigeria is nearly evenly divided between a Muslim-majority north and a largely Christian south.