Nigeria, for sometimes now has been in the eye of the storm as several accusations are pointed to the country over the state of insecurity in the land.
Nigeria has been strongly identified as an insecure nation and has been ranked as one of the leading terrorist nations of the world.
Ted Cruiz, an American Senator in the floor of the National Assembly recently raised some relevant questions about the state of insecurity in Nigeria, noting that Christians are grossly being massacred mostly in the northern part of the country.
Ted Cruz has accused Nigeria’s government of enabling a “massacre” against Christians, citing a rising number of attacks against the Christian community in the country’s troubled centres.
In an X post, Cruz said 50,000 Christians have been killed since 2009 with 2,000 schools and 18,000 churches destroyed by what he called “islamist” armed groups.
Cruz, who counts evangelical Christians among his base, therefore introduced a bill to sanction Nigerian officials who he accused of “ignoring and even facilitating the mass murder of Christians”.
The Republican lawmaker is the most prominent figure among voices from within the Christian political right in the US who are increasingly pushing claims of a Christian genocide in Africa’s most populous country, where 48 percent of people are Christians.
Nigeria’s government, while admitting a security problem, has denied the claims. responding to Cruz’s claims, the Christian Association of Nigeria said the killings in the country were not targeting Christians alone and foreign groups were looking to exploit domestic crises.
Nigeria is plagued by security problems as the armed group, Boko Haram, wages a deadly rebellion in the northeast and criminal gangs operate in the northwest. The country has also been racked by deadly communal violence.
It is alleged that more than 10,000 people have been killed and hundreds kidnapped since Bola Ahmed Tinubu was elected president in May 2023. As many as 3 million people are said to have remained displaced by the violence. So what’s the truth? and why has Nigeria failed to improve its security?
Apostle Ezekiel Dachomo, a pastor and a Christian leader in Jos, north central part of Nigeria, in a viral video has shown and spoken about the wickedness and the heinous crimes of the Fulani bandits against Nigerians and most especially the Christian communities in Plateau, Benue and some of the Christian communities in the northern part of Nigeria.
In the same vein, the American powerful and influential President Donald Trump acting as a Christian advocate has called on the Nigerian President Tinubu to do something about the killers before he moves his country’s military to Nigeria to rescue the victimised communities, a development which has sparked mixed reactions across board.
Donald Trump in a message threatened to withdraw aids to the most populous black nation saying, “If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediate stop all aides 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,” a warning which has sent shocks and fears across different parts of Nigeria.
Trump had earlier announced that he had declared Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” because of the “existential threat” posed to its Christian population. He said “thousands” had been killed.
While some believed that Trump was acting right, some others who believed the killings which had predated Tinubu’s government was not about Christian persecution but ethnic rivalry would be looked into and decisive actions would be taken.
Just before Trump’s declaration, President Tinubu has changed the country’s security architeture by appoining a new set of Security chiefs, a development which saw General Olufemi Oluyede as Chief of Defence Staff, replacing General Christopher Musa, Major General Waheed Shaibu Chief of Army Staff, Air Vice Marshal S. K. Aneke as Chief of Air staff, Rear Admiral Ibrahim Abbas, and Major-General E.A.P. Undiendeye remains Chief of Defence Intelligence.
With the latest developments, Nigerians and the entire world would be waiting to see what difference President Tinubu and his security team would be bringing to the table in the coming weeks to douse security tension in Nigeria and most especially in the trouble areas.
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