Christian Genocide: The Nigerian Government’s Hypocrisy Amidst US Intended Intervention

Christian Genocide: The Nigerian Government’s Hypocrisy Amidst US Intended Intervention For roughly a month since the thorough investigation...

Christian Genocide: The Nigerian Government’s Hypocrisy Amidst US Intended Intervention

For roughly a month since the thorough investigations by Trump administration, and decision to prevail over wanton killings and mass murder of unsuspecting Christian populations across all corners of Nigeria by islamic terror groups, the Nigerian government in deeply distraught fashion, has been struggling to contain the debacle.

Nigerian government officials initially met the crisis with denials, political rhetorics, and blame-shifting, rather than the practical diplomatic engagement the situation demanded. At the center of the crisis is the unrestrained, systematic killing of indigenous Christian communities by well-armed Fulani militant groups operating under the guise of herdsmen.

This posture of the government not only deepened the crisis, but also raises a troubling question: why have Nigeria’s armed forces repeatedly failed to halt these attacks, despite decades of Western military assistance and support programs? The pattern of inaction has fueled growing public concern about possible complicity in the prolonged violence against innocent citizens.

Notwithstanding, the United States has sustained and maintained its informed and based position that the Christian populations continues to face existential threat in the hands of violent islamic groups in Nigeria. 

Some pundits have continued to stress the opinion of Nigerian sovereignty and territorial integrity and the question of uninvited US intervention. But it is imperative to dispute that notion, and by doing so, cite a few or certain geopolitical events in which the Nigerian government as a perceived key player in West Africa sub region had muled violent intervention in neighbouring countries  even when it was acknowledged to a violation of sovereignty.

For instance in 2023, when the military junta of Niger Republic deposed the corrupt government which had pillaged the country for decades, the Nigerian government not only threatened to invade Niger Republic but used its influence within the ECOWAS forum to mobilize forces of member states to embark on that ungodly voyage. The Nigerian government was willing and ready to violate Niger's territorial sovereignty  to attack the country even when most of its citizens had shown widespread support for the military putchists who deposed the corrupt Bazoum government. The federal government was only forced to back-off as a result of the consolidated solidarity which was immediately announced by Niger's northern neighbours — Mali and Burkina Faso.

It is worth noting that in the years of the corruption of successive democratic administration or the terrorism which had ravaged Niger Republic for years of, the Nigerian government did threaten or attempt intervention in Niger Republic or demanded for prioritisation of citizens lives from the corrupt Nigerien government, but when citizens of the country arose to seek viable solutions to their national problems, the Nigerian government threatened hell and brimstone to reinstall the very hand responsible for the misery.

Now to the question of the taunted U.S intervention in Nigeria over the Christian genocide, and its legitimacy. The Nigerian state had for more a decade lived off from aid package, substantial access of US made weaponry to combat terrorism in Nigeria and in all these while, the security situation had not only grown from bad to worse.

For the United States whose taxpayers dollars had for a decade funded an  endeavour that has only gone from bad to worse, it is only plausible for a review and a change in strategy and approach to flip the situation and attain the expected results.

If the Nigerian government who did not even have the interest or considered the opinion of Nigerien people nor had it actively funded or participated in momentum bedeviling the nigerien state, was so determined to invade and install a unanimously rejected government, how much more the United States who had actively funded the "war-on-terror"campaign in Nigeria, provided mechanical assistance to the cause and yet to avail.

Thus, it is plausible to allure that the invoking of sovereignty and territorial integrity clause cannot be selective otherwise it amounts to hypocrisy. Nigerian Christians for years have suffered annihilation in the hands of islamic jihadists and  successive Nigerian administrations while living off assistance from countries like the USA, continues to be helpless with regards to ensuring that terror activities of these bloodhounds are curtailed substantially. 

The Christian community who makes up a large proportion of not just the country, yearns for a lasting solution to the religiously inspired persecution against them. And if intervention of the United States and people of good conscience is what would bring about that desired change, it would be welcomed with open arms as can be brazenly seen across the opinion board in Nigeria. 

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

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