U.S President Advisor, Massad Boulos dismisses religious persecution claims in Nigeria

 By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja

Massad Boulos, Senior Adviser to the U.S. President connected Arab and African Affairs, has publically dismissed claims of spiritual persecution and targeted genocide against Christians successful Nigeria.

During his discussions with President Bola Tinubu successful Rome, helium emphasized that coercion successful Nigeria affects individuals of each faiths and ethnicities indiscriminately, highlighting that groups similar Boko Haram and ISIS person killed much Muslims than Christians, reflecting the analyzable and wide quality of unit successful the country

Boulos described allegations of spiritual persecution arsenic misguided and inconsistent with the world that coercion does not discriminate based connected religion oregon tribe. He reiterated that victims travel from divers backgrounds and that unit impacts each communities.

He praised Nigeria’s caller information initiatives nether President Tinubu, including accrued deployment of resources to occupation spots similar the Middle Belt, and vowed continued practice with Nigerian authorities connected counter-terrorism and determination security.

Boulos noted ongoing U.S. enactment successful quality sharing, training, and technological assistance, emphasizing the value of concern successful tackling coercion and maritime information issues successful the Gulf of Guinea.

He highlighted determination threats, specified arsenic instability successful the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin, and emphasized that Nigeria’s information concern is portion of broader determination and planetary challenges.

He stressed that the United States remains committed to moving with Nigeria to combat terrorism, support commercialized routes, and beforehand economical stability.

He emphasized Nigeria’s long-standing coexistence of Christian and Muslim communities, noting that the country’s colonisation is astir evenly divided betwixt the two, and that the unit experienced is not rooted successful spiritual ideology but alternatively successful taste and tribal conflicts.

Boulos underscored that Nigeria is not fundamentally a spiritual warfare portion but a federation facing analyzable information issues.

He said: “The Nigerian authorities and the President Tinubu’s medication person precocious enactment successful further measurement and enactment much resources successful those country and we person seen much improvements successful those areas , we admit those measures and we look guardant to ending these sorts of acts wherever they travel from.

“Nigeria is simply a state with each sorts of groups and spiritual groups ,ethnic and tribal and different groups are surviving unneurotic for centuries and Nigerian colonisation is divided 50/50 and truthful this has ne'er been a superior spiritual contented and should not be, but we admit what President Tinubu has done and we shall proceed to enactment unneurotic to marque definite it’s taken attraction of.”

The discussions besides included strengthening practice connected maritime information successful the Gulf of Guinea, with a absorption connected quality exchange, associated operations, and Nigeria’s caller acquisition of U.S. maritime equipment.

Boulos expressed optimism that these efforts would deepen determination information and stability.

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