The Chairman of the Christian Affiliation of Nigeria for the 19 Northern States and the Federal Capital Territory, Rev. Joseph Hayab, says the warning of the US President, Donald Trump, to Nigeria over the killings of Christians was misrepresented
Rev. Hayab acknowledged this on Wednesday, whereas that includes in an interview on Come up Tv monitored by DAILY POST.
He stated that Trump did not threaten to invade Nigeria however as an alternative urged the Federal Authorities to take decisive motion against terrorists concentrating on Christians.
“Listening to what Trump stated, Trump by no means stated he was going to come to combat Nigeria.
“There’s a twisting of all these items. Trump merely stated, ‘Go after these terrorists; for those who don’t go after them, we are able to come and go after them.’ So, who’s afraid of Trump coming to Nigeria,” Hayab requested.
The cleric stated that acknowledging the fact of assaults against Christians is step one towards nationwide therapeutic.
He urged that as an alternative of dismissing victims’ ache, authorities officers ought to have interaction in trustworthy dialogue concerning the disaster.
“You possibly can’t inform somebody who’s a sufferer, who’s in ache, that his cries are not true. As soon as we cease doing that, then we’ll discover a resolution. Let’s admit that folks got here and killed Christians, they usually got here within the identify of faith.
“They got here as Islamic fundamentalists. No Christian is saying Muslims had a gathering and requested folks to go and kill them, however Christians are saying that fundamentalists, terrorists got here within the identify of Islam and killed Christians,” he added.
Recall that Trump stated he had requested his struggle division to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian authorities “continues to permit the killing of Christians”.
