President Donald Trump has again warned that the United States will stop all aid coming to the Nigerian government if it does not put an end to the widespread violent killings in the country.
In a presidential broadcast posted online on Wednesday, Mr Trump said, “If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killings of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria.
“We are going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going to be happy about.”
This comes as a follow-up to Mr Trump’s earlier warning and order for the U.S. Department of War to prepare for a potential offensive invasion of northern Nigeria.
Last week, Mr Trump pulled the ear of the Tinubu administration by re-designating Nigeria as a ‘country of particular’ concern. Thereafter, Mr Trump warned that U.S. troops would storm Nigeria, gun blazing, to smoke out and kill off the armed bandits and “Jihadists” allegedly carrying out a genocide against Christians.
“If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Mr Trump stated. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”
With Mr Trump ordering the U.S. Department of War to prepare for the military offensive, plans seem to be underway to launch an attack on Nigerian soil.
That unwarranted and unwelcome military operation has begun to take shape, according to a report by The New York Times. It reported that the U.S. military was considering three options for the attack, according to defence sources familiar with the plans.
The military plan, the newspaper reported, outlined three options, namely light, medium, and heavy.
