Riley Moore, leader of a United States congressional delegation that investigated claims of Christian genocide in Nigeria, says Washington is on the brink of establishing a strategic security framework with Abuja to confront the country’s spiralling violence.
Speaking in an interview with Fox News on Saturday, monitored by The News Chronicle Moore recounted chilling encounters from the delegation’s visit, describing what he called a humanitarian tragedy.
“What I witnessed in Nigeria was devastating,” he said. “I met a woman who watched all five of her children murdered in front of her. Another lost her husband and two daughters, and even her unborn child.”
The US lawmaker said discussions with Nigerian authorities were encouraging and pointed to imminent cooperation against terror groups and sectarian violence.
“We had productive engagements with the Nigerian government, and I believe we are close to a strategic security framework to counter ISIS and Boko Haram in the Northeast, as well as the genocide against Christians in the Middle Belt,” Moore stated.
He added that a comprehensive report to be submitted to President Donald Trump would spell out concrete options for US–Nigeria collaboration.
“That report will outline clear pathways to work with the Nigerian government to end the slaughter of our brothers and sisters in Christ,” Moore said.
