The US President has warned the Nigerian government to “move fast” as they are ignoring the mass murder of Christians.
Donald Trump has threatened the Nigerian government of “guns blazing” military action as “thousands of Christians” are being “killed by Islamic terrorists.”
The US President has ordered the Department for War to prepare for a possible attack in Nigeria as he warned Christianity is “facing and existential threat” in the West African country.
Trump wrote on social media, “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing’, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.”
Trump added, “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.
“If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians.
“Warning: the Nigerian Government better move fast!”
The US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “Yes sir. The Department of War is preparing for action. “Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.”
Trump said last week that “thousands of Christians are being killed [and] radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”
Last month many US politicians have accused the Nigerian government of doing nothing over the “mass murder” of Christians.
The Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said on Saturday, “The characterisation of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does not reflect our national reality.
“Religious freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identity and shall always remain so.”
Genocide Watch wrote in January 2024 that since 2000, 62,000 Christians in Nigeria have been murdered by Islamist jihadists groups such as Boko Haram, Fulani militias and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
International Committee for Nigeria has said this is genocide of the “Silent Slaughter.”
The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) reported in April 2023 that 2,200 Christian schools and 18,000 Christian churches were set on fire by Islamist jihadists.
