Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
United States lawmaker, Riley Moore, has said that the Nigerian government has failed woefully to justify the billions of dollars received as aid to combat insecurity in the country.
Truth Live News Media quoted Moore, to have said that during an interview on The Dinesh D’Souza Show on Thursday night.
Moore lamented what he called as silence from the Nigerian authorities while Christians are slaughtered for practising their faith.
The lawmaker, who heads the investigative committee set up by US President Donald Trump to probe the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria, warned that if left unchecked, the ongoing violence would have far-reaching consequences.
“My brothers and sisters in Christ are murdered for practising their faith and belief in our Lord Jesus Christ.
“If we don’t address this, if we don’t do something about this, and some terrorists take hold in Nigeria, I promise you, we would have to address it one way or the other.
“What I would like to do is address it cooperatively with Nigerians, and hopefully, there would be.
“I think there is a potential very quickly to partner, and I am hoping they would partner with the US government to address this because we have been providing them billions of billions of dollars worth of security assistance,
“They have been paying for that, but they were also granted security assistance from the United States of America — training and equipment — for them to address this issue, and it has gone on unresolved, and they are not prioritising the protection of the Christians.
“The pieces are in place to address this; it has been flying under the radar, and nobody has cared about this for a very long time.
“But if we are not going to stand up for this, for the very values we have as Christians — and I am not talking of nation building, democracy — we are talking about going on to protect Christians from murder”, the US lawmaker said.