The Igbo Community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja has asked President Bola Tinubu to take advantage of the threat by United States of America President Donald Trump to end genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
The Community in a statement issued on Sunday by its President, Engr. Ikenna-Ellis Ezenekwe, noted that there has been an avalanche of religious killings of Christians in Nigeria.
It declared that the only way to avert the actualisation of the threat of military intervention by Trump is to put an end to the mass killings in the area.
“It also serves as an opportunity for the Tinubu administration to wipe the religious terrorists out of Nigeria so as to save the lives of Nigerians.
“Nigeria has had a history of religious violence dating back to the days when people of Igbo extraction were prosecuted and killed in thousands in Northern Nigeria.
“It is not untrue to say that Christians have suffered genocidal killing in Nigeria, and continues to suffer such killings till date,” the group said.
It lamented that the Christians have been killed en masse by religious bigots in the northern parts of Nigeria.
According to the statement, “The people of north central Nigeria, particularly the people of Benue and Plateau States, including the people of Southern Kaduna have suffered the latest brunt of religious killings by religious terrorists.
“It has been a sad and embarrassing ordeal that remains an albatross exacerbated by the inability of the Federal Government of Nigeria to checkmate the killings over the years.
“It is on this note that the President of the Federal Government of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is called to step up to the plate and grab the opportunity to eradicate the menace.”
The community suggested that Tinubu should work hands in glove with Trump to end the genocide in the country.
“President Tinubu should ask the American President, Donald Trump, for help towards eradicating the menace.
“Too many innocent lives have been lost to marauding bandits and religious terrorists,” it said.
The statement comes after President Trump listed Nigeria as a country of particular concern, and promised to take action if the killings of Christians in the country continued.
