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The lawmaker representing Borno South senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Ali Ndume, has blamed the President Bola Tinubu administration and the National Assembly over the designation of Nigeria as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ by US President Donald Trump.
The former Chief Whip of the Senate who made the accusation in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, accused the executive and legislative arms of government of complacency and failure to engage the US government proactively on alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria which led to the development.
Ndume stated that he had earlier sponsored a motion in the Senate on “Christian genocide” in the country where he outlined steps to take among which was to come up with resolutions mandating the Nigerian government to engage the U.S. with verified facts and figures.
But he noted with regrets that the motion was not followed through by the government and the NASS, believing that if the resolutions had been acted upon, the situation would have been tackled at the right time.
Ndume stressed that the Tinubu administration and the Senate had treated earlier allegation raised by US lawmaker, Riley Moore, with complacency, prior to Trump’s declaration, and urged the federal government to take urgent steps to engage the US government with facts and figures on the activities of terrorists’ organisation which he noted were blind to faith.
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“I have alerted the government. I even moved a motion. Nigeria is a sovereign state, it isn’t about what the United States can do to us, but about the misconception and the ripple effects of classifying us as a country of concern,” he lamented.
“We should engage the American government by presenting facts and figures. By engaging the US government, we should demand that they hear the other side of the story from the Nigerian government and the Muslim community. Muslims have been killed too. The genocide isn’t against Christians but Nigerians generally,” he emphasized.
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