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From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
South-Eastern women under the umbrella of Igbo Women Assembly (IWA), have said anyone denying the massacre of Christians in Nigeria must be an accomplice of such genocide.
This is even as the women have commended President Donald Trump of the United States of America,for designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), over Christian genocide and the threat of a possible military action.
In a statement, IWA’s President, Lolo Nneka Chimezie, took a swipe at the Nigerian Government for “turning a blind eye to unprovoked attacks against Christians in Nigeria by Islamic fundamentalists until Trump made a threat.”
She said Igbo women appreciated Trump for speaking out against the killing of Christians and indigenous Nigerians, adding that anybody denying genocidal killings in Nigeria must be an accomplice.
Chimezie applauded Trump for putting the Nigerian government on its toes, noting that before now the nation’s leadership had maintained studied silence over the atrocities.
“These atrocities were also scarcely mentioned in the mainstream global media. We complained, they tagged us separatists, while the mainstream media dismissed the systematic genocides as herder-farmer clashes.
“It’s shameful that it took the American President’s tweet for Nigerian Government to talk about the senseless killings of its own citizens by blood-thirsty terrorists. So, without Trump, these atrocities would have continued and we will be here making noise about 2027.”
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According to IWA, evidence of genocidal killings of Christians in Nigeria “is overwhelming.”
“We concur completely with Trump on this. Even cows are killed with some respect. But these heartless murderers cut human lives like grass. Yet our government does nothing except media propaganda.
“These same jihadist are responsible for the atrocities from the Middle Belt to the South-East. They have taken over our forests and driven away our farmers, destroying their crops and causing food insecurity all over the land.”
IWA challenged those trying to rationalise the killings to juxtapose the casualty figures of Christians and others to prove their argument.
“Those claiming that Muslims are also being killed, should show Trump a Muslim-dominated area in the North that was attacked the way we have Christian communities destroyed in Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Benue and even in the South East.
“Is it because our President and his Vice are all Muslims that they are not speaking up for the suffering Christians in Nigeria whose lives are being hunted by jihadists disguising as herdsmen?”
The women renewed their earlier call for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, adding that Kanu had been vocal against genocidal killings by jihadists masquerading as herdsmen.
IWA appealed to Trump to prevail on the Nigerian Government to free Kanu, who, according to the women group did nothing to warrant his ordeals.
