Donald Trump Tells Buhari>> US Will Not Allow Killings Of Christians In Nigeria To Continue

President Donald Trump has told his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, that the US will not sit down and allow killings of Christians in Nigeria to continue unabated.

This was made known on Monday in Washington DC during the bilateral talk between both leaders.

Buhari had said that Nigerian herdsmen did not wield guns but only carry sticks and sometimes machetes.

“The problem of herders in Nigeria is a very long historical thing. The Nigerian herders don’t carry anything more than a stick and occasionally a matchet to cut down foliage and give it to their animals, these ones are carrying AK-47,” he said.

“So, people should not underrate what happened in Libya. Forty years of Ghaddaffi, people were recruited from Sahel and trained to shoot and kill. With the demise of Ghaddaffi they moved to other countries and region and carried the experience with them.

He lauded the US for their support to the country in fighting crime.

“We are grateful to the United States for agreeing to give us the aircraft that we asked for. We are even more grateful for the physical presence of the United States military officials in Nigeria,” the Nigerian leader noted.

“Our institutions in Nigeria, for training them and going to the Northeast to see how they are performing.

“The commitment of the United States to get rid of terrorism across the world, we have fast earned experience from that and we are grateful for it,” he added.

On his part, Trump said the US will not tolerate the killing of Christians in Nigeria.

“We have had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria, we are going to be working on that problem very, very hard because we cannot allow that to happen,” he said.