The United States President, Donald Trump, acknowledged that Muslims are also being killed in Nigeria, while warning that he could order more airstrikes on Nigeria if the killings in the country continue.
On Christmas Day, the U.S. hit two camps run by a jihadist group called Lakurawa in the largely Muslim state of Sokoto, in north-western Nigeria near the border with Niger.
The strikes occurred about a month after Trump threatened to send troops into Nigeria ‘guns-a-blazing’ to wipe out the terrorists killing our cherished Christians, as some US politicians repeatedly claimed that there was a genocide against Christians in the West African nation.
It is still unclear if there were any casualties, as neither the US nor Nigerian government has provided figures, and there has been no update on the outcome of the attack.
Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, dropped hints of another strike.
‘I’d love to make it a one-time strike. But if they continue to kill Christians, it will be a many-time strike’, he said.
Though Nigeria’s government has continued to deny the accusations that it is failing to protect Christians from jihadist attacks, it has, however, agreed to cooperate with the US and other friendly countries in tackling the insecurity in the country.
Trump’s senior adviser for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos said Boko Haram and ISIS were killing more Muslims than Christians.
Asked about his adviser’s statement, Trump said: ‘I think that Muslims are being killed also in Nigeria. But it’s mostly Christians’.
